LGF Archives: April 2008
Wednesday Night Video: Tommy Emmanuel
Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:32:59 pm PDT
A beautiful performance of Angelina by Australian acoustic guitar virtuoso Tommy Emmanuel. [Video]
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Hillary on O'Reilly
Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 5:03:38 pm PDT
Hillary Clinton and Bill O’Reilly, now on Fox News... UPDATE at 4/30/08 5:26:54 pm: Some moments in time... The full beam: The serious dimple: Cackle!
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Iowahawk: Advice for the Lovelorn
Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:54:17 pm PDT
Even if the Rev. Wright scandal wrecks Barack Obama’s run for the presidency, Barry can always fall back on his obvious skills as an advice columnist: Advice for the Lovelorn. Dear Barry: I’ve been married to the same wonderful man — Let’s call him “Jeremiah” — for 20 years. He’s a ...
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Pipes and Hanson Actually Manage to Speak at UC Berkeley
Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:58:21 am PDT
Check out Protest Shooter’s photo report on the panel discussion with Daniel Pipes and Victor Davis Hanson at UC “Belly of the Beast” Berkeley. UPDATE at 4/30/08 5:44:38 pm: Zombie has a great report too: Pipes and VDH at Berkeley: No news is good news.
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Midday Open Thread
Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:28:44 am PDT
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me. — Cervantes
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A Holocaust Denier at the Washington Post/Newsweek Site
Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:10:10 am PDT
The Washington Post and Newsweek have a special joint project called “On Faith” that has been running for more than a year, a special project that is thoroughly infiltrated by radical Islamists, antisemites, and Holocaust deniers, misleadingly promoted as “interfaith dialog.” Some of the propagandists published by On Faith are relatively ...
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Indonesian Christians Intimidated by Islamic Groups
Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:52:19 am PDT
In the so-called “moderate” Islamic state of Indonesia, Christians are being forced out of their churches as Islamic supremacists take over: Indonesians seek salvation in shops. If the BBC is reporting on the situation in such a downbeat way, you can be sure it’s a lot worse than this article makes ...
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Daily Kos: 'Uncle Tom' Obama
Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 9:52:54 pm PDT
Barack Obama’s repudiation of Jeremiah Wright didn’t go over well with many of the Kos Kids. To say the least. Daily Kos: “Uncle Tom” Obama. I have been a huge supporter of Barack. He is the guy I’ve been behind for quite awhile now. Check my older diaries if ...
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ADL Denounces Ben Stein's 'Expelled'
Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:06:49 pm PDT
I don’t always agree with the Anti-Defamation League, but I do in this case: Anti-Evolution Film Misappropriates the Holocaust. New York, NY, April 29, 2008 ... The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today issued the following statement regarding the controversial film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. The film Expelled: No Intelligence ...
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Lotta Hate in the Room at Fark.com
Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:12:28 pm PDT
Why are they hatin’ on us so hard at Fark? They’re even posting that laughable years-old hack job by “Dr. Menlo” again (Late German Fascists — get it?) FARK.com: DNC hits rock bottom, continues to dig. It’s amusing to see them rant and throw tantrums every time an LGF link appears ...
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Midday Open Thread
Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:37:51 pm PDT
Just another open thread...
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Jimmy Carter in the New York Times
Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:35:18 pm PDT
Jimmy Carter just doesn’t know when to stop: Pariah Diplomacy. He accomplished nothing. Even the Palestinians say he accomplished nothing. Hamas launched an attack the day before his meeting with Meshaal, and mocked him afterward by openly declaring they had no intent to recognize Israel and that any truce would be ...
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Forum: The Rev. Wright Speech
Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:53:27 am PDT
The previous thread about Barack Obama’s belated disavowal of Reverend Jeremiah Wright is approaching 500 comments, so here’s another thread to discuss. I’ve been switching back and forth between Fox News and MSNBC, risking ideological whiplash as MSNBC gushes over the speech...
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Barack Obama Speaks About Rev. Wright
Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:57:29 am PDT
Barack Obama is giving a press conference right now, throwing Reverend Jeremiah Wright under the bus... UPDATE at 4/29/08 11:27:09 am: The bottom line: it’s simply unbelievable that he did not know about Wright’s views until yesterday. To give just one example out of many: Wright traveled to Libya with Louis Farrakhan and ...
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McCain Dumps Hizballah Supporter from Michigan Campaign
Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:49:23 am PDT
Big LGF kudos to John McCain for dumping an open Hizballah supporter from his Michigan Finance Committee; Debbie Schlussel has the details. Ali Jawad and his company, Armada Oil, were convicted of insurance and mail fraud in federal court and ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution ...
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New DNC Ad Shows US Troops Being Blown Up
Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:24:10 am PDT
Howard Dean sent the following email to his mailing list yesterday: Dear Friend, John McCain wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years. He’s said it, and it’s on tape. But his campaign hates that he was caught. They’ve viciously attacked anyone who reminded the American people that he said it, including ...
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Freed CBS Reporter Hates America
Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:15:24 am PDT
CBS reporter Richard Butler, kidnapped by terrorists and held for two months before being freed by Iraqi troops, says it was better than being taken into custody by Americans. Butler said he felt it was better to be kidnapped in Iraq then taken into custody by Americans in Afghanistan. “I was ...
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Tuesday Early Morning Open
Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:27:08 am PDT
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. — Mark Twain
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Syria Was Way Too Close to Nukes
Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 6:38:45 pm PDT
Come on, world. You can do it. Say, “Thank you, Israel.” Hayden: Syrian site could have produced fuel for 2 weapons. WASHINGTON - CIA Director Michael Hayden said Monday that the alleged Syrian nuclear reactor destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in September would have produced enough plutonium for one or two bombs ...
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Nutroots Panicking
Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 6:32:02 pm PDT
There is a fragrant hint of panic in the air tonight at the new mainstream center of the Democratic Party: Daily Kos: Obama, Get Wright’s Dirt Off Your Coattails. Many of you will disagree with what I have to say, however it’s rapidly becoming clear that it’s now time for ...
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Obvious AP Headline of the Day
Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:45:48 pm PDT
The article is from Associated Press Democratic advocate Nedra Pickler, who shall henceforth be known as Nedra “Obvious” Pickler: Analysis: Wright does Obama little good. That’s the kind of high-quality, incisive analysis you can only get from the mainstream media.
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New Database Attack Hits UN, UK, and DHS Sites
Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:43:54 pm PDT
Oops. Massive Attack: Half A Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection. A new SQL injection attack aimed at Microsoft IIS web servers has hit some 500,000 websites, including the United Nations, UK Government sites and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. While the attack is not necessarily Microsoft’s fault, ...
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Barbie, Batman, Spiderman, and Harry Potter Invade Iran
Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:19:50 pm PDT
It’s the dreaded invasion of American culture: Iran takes new shot at Barbie, calling US doll ‘destructive’. TEHRAN, Iran - A top Iranian judiciary official warned Monday against the “destructive” cultural and social consequences of importing Barbie dolls and other Western toys. In the latest salvo in a more than decade-old ...
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Monday Afternoon Open
Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:14:35 pm PDT
The reality of it is, when all is said and done, for all intents and purposes, it’s an open thread...
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Video - Rev. Wright: No Apologies for 'God D--- America'
Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:06:52 pm PDT
Jeremiah Wright is asked whether he will apologize to the American people for saying “God damn America.” You probably already know his answer, but the patronizing, mocking tone is a bonus. [Video]
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Buggy Diggbot Breaks the Rules
Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:36:30 pm PDT
A robot from Digg.com has been rapidly running through everything at LGF, including images, with multiple hits per second. It’s doing this despite the following lines in our robots.txt file: User-agent: * Crawl-delay: 600 This rule is supposed to limit the amount of hits from all robots to no more than one every ...
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Demonstration Against Rev. Wright at National Press Club
Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:52:25 am PDT
This Ain’t Hell has good photos and video of the demonstration outside the National Press Club this morning: Jeremiah Wright at the National Press Club.
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Tech Note: Using the Contact Form
Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:44:12 am PDT
From a glance at the error log, I see that some people have been having trouble using our contact form; however, I’m also getting plenty of email through the form, so I know it is working as intended. There are two things your browser must allow in order to use the ...
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Another Antisemitic Hatefest at UC Irvine
Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:21:34 am PDT
Coming soon to the University of California Irvine, where an official investigation claimed there was no antisemitism among the school’s Islamic student groups: MSU ‘Anti-Israel’ Week; May 7 - May 15. Click the picture below to see the full poster, featuring a photoshopped image of the Israeli security barrier covered in ...
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We Got Mail! (From an Obamaton)
Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:32:37 am PDT
My favorite hate mails are the ones from people who sneer at me for being stupid and uneducated, then proceed to misspell a simple word: Some bloggers misinterpretation of Obama’s statement as opposite, is solid proof that the public education system in America is in deep duh-duh. Its graduates are ...
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Will Obama Set Back Race Relations?
Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:57:13 am PDT
Rand Simberg says Barack Obama may end up doing for race relations What The Clintons Did For Feminism.
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McCain Gets in Touch with Reality
Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:33:32 am PDT
Suddenly John McCain has decided it’s OK to criticize Barack Obama for his association with Jeremiah Wright. It’s no longer out of touch with reality, it’s not racist, and it’s not the kind of sleazy politics that Ronald Reagan would be ashamed of. Why the change of heart? Because Barack Obama ...
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Monday Early Morning Open
Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:03:03 am PDT
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. — William Allen White
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Sunday Night Stats
Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 8:11:27 pm PDT
Here are some statistics from our database server that I find exceptionally gratifying; this post can also be viewed as an open thread if you’re not in the mood for stats. These numbers indicate a very healthy server running at close to peak efficiency, which is why I’m so darn ...
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Bawer: An Anatomy of Surrender
Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 6:37:01 pm PDT
Bruce Bawer has an excellent piece at City Journal on “creeping sharia,” the cultural and legal front of the global jihad—and it isn’t only happening in Europe: An Anatomy of Surrender. Islam divides the world into two parts. The part governed by sharia, or Islamic law, is called the Dar ...
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Sunday Night Video: Maze, Featuring Frankie Beverly
Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 5:49:25 pm PDT
In honor of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, here’s Frankie Beverly and Maze with an outrageously funky version of We Are One. Try not to clap on one and three, white people. [Video]
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Rev. Wright Speaks to NAACP
Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 4:44:26 pm PDT
Fox News is showing the speech of Reverend Jeremiah Wright to the NAACP right now, and the introduction is so insanely over the top it’s almost unbelievable... “Must Jeremiah bear the cross alone?” UPDATE at 4/27/08 4:49:23 pm: They’re giving Wright a wild standing ovation...
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'So, 4000 Rubes Are Dead'
Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 2:48:22 pm PDT
The person who wrote this will undoubtedly thrive on the attention, but if you’d like a glimpse at the dark dead end of leftist thought, here it is: F*CK THE TROOPS. So, 4000 rubes are dead. Cry me the Tigris. Another 30,000 have been seriously wounded. Boo f*cking hoo. They ...
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Sunday Afternoon Open
Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 1:25:54 pm PDT
As the temperature rises, the fragrance of the ostrich farms becomes audible. — Stinky Beaumont
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Rev. Wright in Full, Unedited Context
Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:54:57 am PDT
The full video of Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s now-infamous “God Damn America” sermon has been posted by Fox News here, in three parts: Sermon Video Presents Obama’s Former Pastor in His Own Words. Watch the whole thing—because despite the outcry from mainstream media and Obama supporters (there’s a difference?) that Wright’s vile ...
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Lefties Seething Over Obama on Fox
Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:09:36 am PDT
Barack Obama’s decision to appear on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace (today at 11am/3pm Pacific) has provoked a round of extreme seething among the leftist blogs. Open Left has Obama figured out; he’s a right-wing undercover operative. Obama is sucking up to Fox News, and beyond that, the campaign operative ...
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AP Reeking of Bias As Usual
Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 8:53:22 am PDT
The incredibly biased wire service reporting from the Palestinian territories is relentless, no matter how often they’re criticized and caught lying. Today Associated Press propagandist Ibrahim Barzak reports on a clash between Hamas terrorists and the IDF in which a terrorist’s daughter was killed, and gets seven paragraphs into his ...
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Karzai Escapes Taliban Assassination Attempt
Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 8:17:51 am PDT
Hamid Karzai has been saying he intends to bring Taliban terrorists into the political process in Afghanistan; this is how they repay him: Afghan president safe after fleeing gunfire at Kabul event. KABUL, Afghanistan - Suspected Taliban militants attacked a ceremony attended by the Afghan president on Sunday, unleashing automatic ...
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Sunday Early Morning Open
Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 3:44:22 am PDT
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals. — John Steinbeck
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Another Hizballah War on the Horizon
Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 6:53:11 pm PDT
It’s not as if they’re trying very hard to hide it: Hizbollah builds up covert army for a new assault against Israel. The dead of southern Lebanon watch the living from the sides of buildings and from lampposts, their faces staring out defiantly from posters, heads often superimposed on bodies ...
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A Very High Weirdness Quotient
Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 6:25:32 pm PDT
I think the technical term for this is “strange bedfellows.” Exceedingly strange bedfellows. Downright weird, in fact. MICHELLE OBAMA’S NAME REMOVED FROM TERRORIST FUNDRAISER’S WEBPAGE-UPDATE: WEBPAGE DISAPPEARS (littlegreenfootballs.com) They save the screen shots with her name on the page! - HILLARY CLINTON FORUM - Independent Discussion Forum for Supporters of Hillary Clinton! ...
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And Now, the Lolstrich
Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 5:29:01 pm PDT
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Obama Calls Bloggers Liars for Accurately Reporting His Words, Goes Back to Eating Waffle
Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 4:15:29 pm PDT
This is an absolutely blatant attempt to rewrite history by Barack Obama, documented at ABC News Political Punch. First, I honestly don’t care much whether a person wears a flag pin, and you can certainly be a patriot without wearing a badge proclaiming it. The issue for me: Obama’s reasons for ...
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MSNBC's Abrams Freaks Out Over Obama on Fox
Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:44:41 pm PDT
At Newsbusters, a hilarious transcript of MSNBC’s Dan Abrams having convulsions over Barack Obama’s decision to go on Fox News Sunday: MSNBC’s Abrams: I Don’t Think Obama Should Go On Fox News - NewsBusters.org.
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Krauthammer: Obama's 'Distractions'?
Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:36:59 pm PDT
Charles Krauthammer has a really good column in yesterday’s WaPo: Obama’s ‘Distractions’? Then came the three amigos: Tony Rezko, the indicted fixer; Jeremiah Wright, the racist reverend; William Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist. And then Obama’s own anthropological observation that “bitter” working-class whites cling to guns and religion because they misapprehend ...
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Saturday Afternoon Playlist
Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 1:41:57 pm PDT
Just some music for a Saturday afternoon...
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Spurlock's CAIR-Free Movie
Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:52:43 am PDT
It’s amazing what leftist filmmakers can get away with: Morgan Spurlock: CAIR Free. CAIR is fine with this:
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Bookworm Room on 'Islamophobia' Conference
Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:40:26 am PDT
Here’s a good post at Bookworm Room on an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about that convention of radical Islamists and Western apologists at UC Berkeley: An article about Islam most amazing for what it doesn’t say.
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Bell: A Home-Grown 'Champion of Islam'
Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 9:30:27 am PDT
Stewart Bell has a scary piece about the increasing numbers of young Canadian Muslims indoctrinated into extremism, focusing on one especially nasty Home-grown ‘champion of Islam’. TORONTO -Naeem Muhammad Khan wants everyone to “Support Our Troops,” but he’s not talking about the Canadian Forces in Kandahar. From his apartment in Toronto, ...
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Nazi Moron Posts Someone Else's Address
Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 8:52:09 am PDT
Lots of people emailing this morning to tell me that Nazi idiot Bill White is posting what he thinks is my address and phone number all over the web. But with his usual incompetence, he has the wrong address. He’s posting someone else’s address, and inviting his troglodyte followers to do ...
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Saturday Early Morning Open
Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 2:58:28 am PDT
ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. — Ambrose Bierce
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Abbas Seethes and Whines
Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:13:05 pm PDT
Mahmoud Abbas is going home empty-handed (except for those hundreds of millions of dollars we’ve given him), after presenting President Bush with the usual Palestinian laundry list of ridiculous demands: Abbas says no progress in talks with Bush. The brave PLO jihadi is whining about settlements again, of course. Even as ...
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Friday Night Video: Pat Metheny
Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:47:13 pm PDT
From the album [Amazon Link]. [Video]
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Zombie: Olympic Torch Relay Updated
Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:11:29 pm PDT
Zombie has posted a major update of the Olympic Torch Relay photo/video report. Among many awesome pictures:
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Clarification: Michelle Obama's Terrorist Fundraiser 'Friend'
Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 5:01:50 pm PDT
There have been some questions about a statement I made in my earlier post about the page at the official Obama web site belonging to Hatem El-Hady (a former head of the Hamas-connected Kindhearts Islamic charity), with Michelle Obama listed as his friend. Remember the page that vanished down the ...
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We Got Mail! (From a Nazi!)
Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 3:46:20 pm PDT
Here’s a love note received this morning through our contact form, from a Cox Communications IP address that traces to Roanoke, Virginia, and composed on a PC running Windows NT 5.1 and Internet Explorer 7.0. It’s from Nazi moron Bill White. Mr. White used the return address ‘answp@nazi.org’ and the subject line, ...
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French Fascist Leader: Auschwitz Didn't Have Gas Chambers
Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 3:10:32 pm PDT
In France today, Jean-Marie Le Pen, head of the neo-fascist National Front, reiterated his belief that there were no gas chambers in Auschwitz. Far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen sparked a chorus of outrage in France on Friday by repeating an incendiary claim that the Nazi gas chambers were a “detail ...
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Friday Open Thread
Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:12:47 pm PDT
Why not an open thread?
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ShrinkWrapped: On Europe and Genocide
Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:18:07 pm PDT
Here’s an excellent post at Shrinkwrapped on the psychological malfunctions that lead to articles like the Gates of Vienna genocide porn piece: ShrinkWrapped: On Europe and Genocide. The author of the GoV piece exhibits all the signs of a regressive response to anxiety. He posits Islam as an existential ...
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McCain: NC Republicans 'Out of Touch with Reality'
Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:40:46 am PDT
John McCain attacks the North Carolina GOP: McCain says N.C. Republicans out of touch over ad. In an NBC interview aired on Friday, the Arizona senator said he has done all he can to persuade the state party to cancel the television ad that criticizes Obama as “too extreme” because ...
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Michelle Obama's Name Removed from Terrorist Fundraiser's Web Page - Update: Terror Fundraiser's Page Disappears!
Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:52:41 am PDT
Curiouser and curiouser. As we noted a few days ago, Hatem El-Hady, former chairman of the Toledo-based Islamic charity Kindhearts (closed by the US government in 2006 for terrorist fundraising), has now devoted himself to raising money for the Barack Obama campaign. He has a web page at the official Obama campaign ...
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Friday Early Morning Open
Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 3:17:22 am PDT
When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice. — William James
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Gates of Vienna Toys with Genocide
Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:28:18 pm PDT
At Gates of Vienna, an author referred to as “thoughtful” has a piece that lovingly describes the coming genocide of Muslims in Europe: Gates of Vienna: Surrender, Genocide ... or What? He backs away at the last minute, after imagining it in great detail, and says he’s not advocating genocide. ...
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Thursday Evening Open
Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:00:11 pm PDT
An open thread as evening creeps in...
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Howler of the Day
Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 6:41:42 pm PDT
President Bush is keeping up his game face, even though he must know it’s never going to happen: Bush says he’s confident about creation of Palestinian state. But the real howler of the day is the ludicrous second sentence of this Associated Press report: WASHINGTON - President Bush sought Thursday to ...
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UC Berkeley Holds 'Islamophobia' Event, Starring Radical Islamists
Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 5:43:16 pm PDT
Hatem Bazian, the Islamist at UC Berkeley who infamously called for “an intifada in this country” (then lied about it to the media), is one of the stars of a new production at UC Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender, opening tomorrow: Deconstructing Islamophobia. Also on the speaker list: Parvez Ahmed, ...
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CAIR Official Disinvited from Florida Mayor's Prayer Breakfast
Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:23:52 pm PDT
Another defeat for CAIR, as more people wake up to their thinly veiled radical Islamic agenda: CAIR Rep Disinvited from Plantation Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast. (Coral Springs, FL) The Executive Director of the Florida office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Florida), Altaf Ali, has been disinvited from speaking at ...
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Thursday Afternoon Open
Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:05:10 pm PDT
An open thread as Thursday afternoon moves in and makes itself at home...
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Rev. Wright Defends His Racist Anti-American Comments
Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:24:11 am PDT
Rev. Jeremiah Wright was interviewed by loony leftist Bill Moyers (airing on PBS tomorrow) and imagine my surprise; he claims his words were twisted. Because, you know, the best way to “twist” someone’s words is to quote them verbatim. “I felt it was unfair,” Mr. Wright said, according to excerpts of ...
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NC Republicans to RNC: Stay Out of Our Business
Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:17:49 am PDT
Republicans in North Carolina are not happy with John McCain’s politically correct decision not to mention Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and they’re rejecting his call to cancel their advertisement: NOTE TO RNC - Stay Out of Our Business! Here’s the ad, and I have to agree with the NC people. I have ...
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Palestinians: Carter's Hamas Meeting Achieved Nothing
Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:41:23 am PDT
Jimmy Carter—not just disgraceful, but an impotent joke: Carter-Hamas meeting achieved nothing: Palestinians. Last week’s meeting between former US president Jimmy Carter and the exiled leader of Hamas militants did not produce any results, Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki said here Wednesday. “President Carter came to the region thinking he could ...
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US, Britain, and France Walk Out of UN Meeting
Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:21:15 am PDT
The US, Britain, and France walked out of a UN Security Council meeting yesterday, after the Libyan ambassador made a typically disgusting statement. UNITED NATIONS - Dilomats from the United States, Britain and France have walked out of a U.N. Security Council meeting after Libya compared the situation in Gaza ...
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Does the Mainstream Media Pay Terrorists?
Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:38:07 am PDT
Steven Emerson asks the question: Do Hamas Columnists Get Paid? The Washington Post is refusing to disclose this information. Did the Post pay its standard fee for Zahar’s column? The Post compensates guest writers with a minimum $200 fee, spokeswoman Rima Calderon said. Other factors, including whether the column was solicited ...
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Thursday Early Morning Open
Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:59:08 am PDT
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. — Theodore Roosevelt
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Gates of Vienna Attacks Robert Spencer
Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:21:58 pm PDT
Following Robert Spencer’s post about the need for the anti-jihad movement to reject white nationalists and racialists, fascist sympathizer Dymphna of Gates of Vienna launches an amazingly sleazy attack on Spencer in the comments to his post: Jihad Watch: Why the anti-jihad resistance is not about race. Mr. Spencer: That is ...
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New Candidate for Weakest Hit Piece Ever
Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:39:29 pm PDT
Here’s a telling comparison. Since the Media Matters Eric Boehlert hit piece on “warbloggers” was posted this morning at 9:51 am Pacific, we’ve received exactly 36 hits from people who clicked one of the two links in Boehlert’s article. (One of them was probably from Keith Olbermann.) 36. But since Glenn Reynolds linked ...
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Bombed Syrian Reactor Was 'Nearing Completion'
Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 4:37:01 pm PDT
Syria was apparently very close to having the means to produce nuclear weapons, with the help of North Korea: Bombed Syrian reactor was nearly complete. The Bush administration will tell Congress tomorrow that a nuclear facility in Syria built with North Korean help was nearly complete when Israel bombed it ...
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Jimmy Carter Calls Condi Rice a Liar
Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:22:43 pm PDT
Jimmy Carter continues to plumb new depths of disgraceful behavior: Carter says Secretary Rice ‘not telling truth’. ATLANTA (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday accused Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of not telling the truth about warnings she said her department gave Carter not to speak to ...
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Congressional Candidate Speaks to Nazis on Hitler's Birthday
Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:02:39 pm PDT
Absolutely disgusting. Who let this Neanderthal into the Republican Party? Worst Campaign Idea Ever? CROWN POINT, Ind. - If fans of Hitler held a party, and a candidate for federal office attended, would anybody notice? Apparently, yes. U.S. Congressional candidate Tony Zirkle is facing criticism from one of his primary opponents, and ...
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When Media Matters Attacks
Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:06:36 am PDT
Media Matters shill Eric Boehlert is at it again, with another bilious rant about “warbloggers:” Michelle Malkin and the warbloggers get everything wrong — again. I wouldn’t even bother with Boehlert’s nonsense, except that his description of our coverage of AP photographer Bilal Hussein’s release under an Iraqi amnesty law is ...
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Terrorist Fundraisers for Obama
Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:32:34 am PDT
Another big Barack Obama supporter: Hatem El-Hady, former chairman of the Toledo-based Islamic charity Kindhearts, closed by the US government in 2006 for terrorist fundraising: Terrorist Fundraisers for Obama. El-Hady has now devoted himself to raising money for Barack Obama; he has a page at the official Obama campaign web site, ...
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Obama's Official Blogger: A Hardcore Marxist
Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:45:59 am PDT
Barack Obama’s “official campaign blogger,” Sam Graham-Felsen, is a hardcore Marxist—and even leftists like this are disturbed by his presence on the campaign staff: Sam Graham-Felsen stands for what? UPDATE at 4/23/08 10:28:55 am: Here’s an article by Sam Graham-Felsen at the Harvard Crimson, expressing his admiration for anti-American academic Noam Chomsky, ...
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Wednesday Early Morning Open
Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:09:12 am PDT
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. — Groucho Marx
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More of Obama's Anti-American Friends
Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:03:01 pm PDT
New revelations about The Friends of Barack Obama, with audio of shocking anti-American statements from Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, made in 2007.
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Penis Snatching Sorcerers Terrorize Congo
Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:11:22 pm PDT
“What was left was tiny.” KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft. Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, ...
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PA Primary Thread 2
Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 7:05:03 pm PDT
Another thread to discuss the deeper meanings of Hillary Clinton’s Pennsylvania primary win...
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PA Primary Thread 1
Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:31:13 pm PDT
The polls have closed in Pennsylvania, and by all accounts there was a record turnout for this Democratic primary. Here’s an open thread to discuss what may end up being Hillary’s Last Stand... UPDATE at 4/22/08 6:39:03 pm: It’s too soon to count Hillary out. She’s apparently won in Pennsylvania. This means ...
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State Department Solves 'Jihad' Problem
Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:51:29 pm PDT
What more is there to say at this point except, “Aarrgghhh?” Jihad Watch: New State Department lexicon forbids use of the words ‘jihad’ or ‘jihadist’. A reliable source has informed me that Condoleeza Rice has approved a new lexicon for State Department usage, absolutely forbidding the use of the terms ...
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Connections
Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:27:18 pm PDT
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Pathetic United Nations Story of the Day
Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:29:01 am PDT
Hizballah is rebuilding and rearming in Lebanon at a frightening rate, and United Nations “peacekeepers” just run away when they stumble across the terrorists smuggling weapons: UNIFIL finds Hezbollah arms; gunmen scatter peacekeepers. To make it worse, the UN apparently buried the story, giving it only a brief mention in a ...
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Onion Scoops Zawahiri
Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:55:58 am PDT
Bumpy Zawahiri’s denunciation of the Troofer idiots was predicted by that highly reputable news source, The Onion: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories ‘Ridiculous,’ Al Qaeda Says.
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Belien Smears Dissident Frogman
Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:40:00 am PDT
Vlaams Belang shill Paul Belien at The Brussels Journal (or his “desk”) indulges in a blatantly dishonest headline to smear Dissident Frogman and his article on Brigitte Bardot: Moral Equivalence: My Rifle as Ready to Shoot Brigitte as Shoot Islamists. Belien has written and said similarly vicious and dishonest things about ...
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Al Qaeda Chief Disses Troofers
Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:24:02 am PDT
Ayman “Bumpy” Zawahiri is irritated with Dylan Avery and the Troofers for trying to steal his thunder: al-Zawahri: Don’t Listen to Those Idiots, We Pulled Off 9/11.
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'Why Can't I Just Eat My Waffle?'
Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:00:36 am PDT
The would-be President of the United States doesn’t like answering questions about Hamas. WASHINGTON (AFP-EJP)—-Democratic White House contender Barack Obama could not hide his irritation Monday when asked by a reporter what he thought about former president Jimmy Carter’s meeting with Hamas last week. “Why can’t I just eat my waffle?” ...
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Tuesday Early Morning Open
Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 3:12:09 am PDT
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. — Sun Tzu
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The Problem with Brigitte
Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 6:47:02 pm PDT
Here’s Dissident Frogman on The problem with Brigitte Bardot.
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Lizards Rapidly Evolving
Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 6:32:55 pm PDT
A tiny island in the Adriatic Sea is the home of some rather amazing lizards. Italian wall lizards introduced to a tiny island off the coast of Croatia are evolving in ways that would normally take millions of years to play out, new research shows. In 1971, scientists transplanted five adult ...
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Monday Evening Egg
Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 5:03:31 pm PDT
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Obama Backs Out of NC Debate
Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:56:35 pm PDT
Barack “No Middle Name” Obama has bailed on the North Carolina debate.
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Video: Protocols of the Elders of Zion on Hamas TV
Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:59:45 pm PDT
Another of Jimmy Carter's friends, Hamas Culture Minister Atallah Abu Al-Subh, presents excerpts from the antisemitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in a show broadcast April 10, 2008 on official Hamas television (Al Aqsa TV). (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] 'Atallah Abu Al-Subh: I return to this book ...
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Spencer: Why the Anti-Jihad Resistance is Not About Race
Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:11:55 am PDT
An excellent post from Robert Spencer on the need for the anti-jihad movement to reject the white nationalists and racialists trying to hitch a ride and gain legitimacy: Jihad Watch: Why the anti-jihad resistance is not about race. People I respect have pointed out that European culture is being overwhelmed ...
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Palestinians Overwhelmingly Support Mass Murder
Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:25:02 am PDT
More than half of the Palestinian population supports mass murder attacks against Israeli civilians: Palestinians’ backing for terror rises. The number of Palestinians who support attacks against Israelis continues to rise and more than half of them favor suicide bombings, according to a poll published this weekend. The survey also showed ...
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Obama: Exposing Facts = Swiftboating
Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:44:36 am PDT
Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers, Rashid Khalidi, the shady and questionable associations keep piling up; and this is the Obama campaign’s response: Obama: Can’t ‘Swift Boat’ Me. “Swiftboating” is the left’s term for the process of exposing facts about a Democrat’s record and associations.
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Carter: Hamas Wants Peace
Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 8:41:43 am PDT
Jimmy Carter is not only a terrorist sympathizer and an Israel hater—he’s also awesomely, mind-bogglingly stupid: Hamas open to peace deal with Palestinian backing. JERUSALEM - Former US president Jimmy Carter said on Monday the Islamist Hamas movement told him it would recognise Israel’s right to live in peace if ...
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Monday Early Morning Open
Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 3:00:00 am PDT
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. — Winston Churchill
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The Window Opens - The Window Closes
Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 6:48:37 pm PDT
Our semi-random window of registration opportunity has opened. If you manage to climb in, read the fine print, please, and make sure you don’t have any spam filters that are going to intercept the confirmation email. UPDATE at 4/20/08 7:27:59 pm: Now closed, with 75 hatchlings on the delousing deck.
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Sunday Afternoon Playlist
Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:42:20 pm PDT
A little afternoon music...
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Stein's 'Expelled' Exposed?
Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 1:52:23 pm PDT
The National Center for Science Education is not amused by Ben Stein’s anti-evolution film Expelled, and they’ve devoted a web site to debunking what they say are the film’s dishonest claims: Expelled Exposed.
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North Korean Video: A Tribute to Progressives
Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:13:39 am PDT
This appears to be a genuine North Korean anti-America propaganda video, congratulating US “progressives” on their subversion of the government—consisting almost entirely of the most bizarre photographs from zombietime. [Video] UPDATE at 4/20/08 2:27:17 pm: (Psst... OK, maybe it’s not a real NK agitprop film...)
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LGF in Wikio Top 100
Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:00:12 am PDT
LGF is in the top 100 political blogs at the interesting web site wikio.com: Wikio: Politics.
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New Phobia Diagnosed: 'Iranophobia'
Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 9:57:50 am PDT
By any measure, the nonexistent psychological condition dubbed “Islamophobia” has been a huge success for the radical Islamic front groups. It shows up regularly in editorials and commentary in the US, and in Europe the term has taken hold so well the EU is trying to punish those who suffer ...
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What Media Bias?
Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 9:41:42 am PDT
Pope Benedict visited Ground Zero today to pray for the victims of the 9/11 atrocities, and the Associated Press uses it as an excuse to bring up their favorite subject: Benedict has been critical of harsh interrogation methods, telling a meeting of the Vatican’s office for social justice last September ...
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Al-Arian Fundraiser Sparsely Attended
Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 9:17:07 am PDT
The CAIR-sponsored fundraiser in Orange County for jailed Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian was a bust, even though they found a theater that would show their pro-terrorist propaganda film: What if you had a Terror Fund-Raiser and Nobody Showed up?
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Marines Demonstrate Against Code Pink
Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 8:22:34 am PDT
At zomblog, a nice bit of turnabout: Marine Vets Give Code Pink a Taste of Their Own Medicine.
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Sunday Early Morning Open
Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 2:58:27 am PDT
I have often been called a Nazi, and, although it is unfair, I don’t let it bother me. I don’t let it bother me for one simple reason. No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal. — ...
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Sky Calligraphy
Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 6:49:56 pm PDT
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And Now for Some Nick Cave
Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 4:01:29 pm PDT
Some people think Nick Cave is kind of creepy; this is one of his less creepy moments. Some great industrial guitar noises in the mix. [Video]
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Tech Note: Database Backup Revamp Redux
Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 1:15:06 pm PDT
This one’s going to get knee deep in geekspeak before you know it, so feel free to skip over and treat it as an open thread — my feelings won’t be hurt. It’s all about the backups. You don’t know how important they are until some piece of critical hardware fails ...
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And Now, the Eurostench
Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:59:20 am PDT
Mystery Stink Swamps London. Commuters in London and its neighboring towns and villages in southern England woke up to an unusual smell Friday morning: a stink that led many to wonder if the city’s sewers had overflowed. Not even the queen was spared, as newspapers reported that Windsor Castle also suffered ...
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Jimmy Carter's Friends Attack Israel
Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 9:09:09 am PDT
Mere days after meeting with America’s worst former President, on the eve of Passover, Hamas launches a full scale attack on the border with Israel: 13 soldiers hurt, 2 moderately, as Hamas attacks Kerem Shalom. Two IDF soldiers were moderately wounded and 11 others were lightly wounded Saturday morning at ...
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Whinocrats Complain About Everything
Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 8:57:03 am PDT
Yep, this about sums it up; the party of whining complainers: Clinton, Obama complain about complaining. Obama’s complaining that ABC wasn’t nice to him, Clinton’s complaining that the media are in the tank for Obama, and the lefty blogosphere is complaining about everything. As usual.
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Headwinds in the Sky
Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 8:28:51 am PDT
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We Got Mail!
Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 7:24:40 pm PDT
I’m not sure why someone from Ontario in Canada is sending this pro-Ron Paul rant, but there you have it: Pick a f*cking side you f*cks! You hate Dems and lefties but then you say that people living in Paulville are a joke... For choosing to uphold the constitution?? You ...
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The Meaning of 'Amnesty'
Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 6:36:48 pm PDT
The “narrative” from this day on will be that Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein was set free because he was cleared of the charges against him. But it isn’t so: AP’s Terror Operative Freed but Not Cleared. As I wrote last week: Amnesty, of course, does not necessarily equal innocence. In ...
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Egyptian Physician Wants a Lot of Jihad
Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 6:18:24 pm PDT
Ayman “Bumpy” Zawahiri calls on all Muslims to turn mosques, schools, and factories into jihad centers. On April 18, 2008, Al-Ikhlas and other Islamist websites posted an audio message by Al-Zawahiri, produced by Al-Sahab, titled “Five Years after the Invasion of Iraq; Decades of Oppression by the Tyrant.” Al-Zawahiri states ...
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Friday Night Video: Joe Bonamassa
Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:09:51 pm PDT
Joe shreds through an extended version of the Blind Faith song, Had to Cry Today. [Video]
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CAIR on PRNewswire Again
Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:13:46 pm PDT
Speaking of front groups and falsehoods, here’s CAIR using PRNewswire again to spread vicious distortions and attacks on their critics, while promoting a fundraiser for Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian: CAIR: Calif. Theater Cancels Al-Arian Doc After Pressure From ‘Anti-Muslim Bigots’. “By succumbing to pressure from anti-Muslim bigots, Starplex Cinemas ...
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IPT: New York Times Shills for Sami Al-Arian
Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:50:11 pm PDT
There’s a very serious propaganda campaign under way to drum up sympathy for jailed Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian, by Muslim Brotherhood front group MAS and (of course) CAIR. Steven Emerson is outraged by a New York Times article that uncritically repeats the front groups’ falsehoods: What about Sami?: New ...
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Friday Afternoon Open
Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 2:00:13 pm PDT
An end o’ the week open thread...
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Daily Kos Quote of the Day
Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:50:40 am PDT
“Create a mascot of the ‘dirty’ RAT that is Disney/ABC. Perhaps a MickeyMouse lookalike that would scare little children.”
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Saving America, One Gated Community At a Time
Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:35:52 am PDT
Paulville—a nice place to raise your kids, if you believe in the gold standard and the New World Order. The goal of Paulville.org it to establish gated communities containing 100% Ron Paul supporters and or people that live by the ideals of freedom and liberty. (Hat tip: SandPanda.)
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Hello Reuters UK
Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:06:46 am PDT
The Reuters visitor count is going up again today, as employees in their UK Canary Wharf facility have used Google and Technorati to get to these LGF posts: Reuters Cameraman Killed in Gaza, Visits from Reuters Spike A Death Threat from Reuters (Bumped)
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Most Disgraceful Former President Ever
Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:42:54 am PDT
In a pathetically transparent attempt at belated damage control, the spin being put on Jimmy Carter’s visit to Syria to hang out with genocidal terrorist thugs is that he’s trying to get Hamas to release kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit: Carter meets Hamas chief in Syria. Jimmy Carter has made history ...
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Friday Early Morning Open
Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:18:42 am PDT
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tech Note: Database Backup Revamp
Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:12:02 pm PDT
Stinky and I are finally getting around to a much needed redesign of the backup system for our MySQL database, to give us regular nightly automatic backups instead of the semi-manual backup we’ve been doing. Imagine the great noise that would issue forth from the lizard army if the server ...
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Carter Hugs More Thugs
Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:09:10 pm PDT
Looks like there were more Hamas thugs who wanted a hug from Jimmy Carter: Carter meets with more Hamas leaders, defends peace efforts. CAIRO, Egypt - Jimmy Carter held another meeting with officials from the Islamic militant group Hamas on Thursday, arguing it is necessary to talk to all parties ...
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Reuters Cameraman Killed in Gaza, Visits from Reuters Spike
Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:39:19 pm PDT
Fadel Shana, a cameraman for the Reuters wire service, was killed yesterday in Gaza, under somewhat suspicious circumstances. And oddly enough, there were 10 hits yesterday from the UK Canary Wharf office of Reuters; all of those hits went to this LGF page from 2006, when a car Shana was riding ...
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Izzadeen Guilty of Inciting Terrorism in Britain
Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:48:03 am PDT
A fanatic Islamic “preacher” who’s been the subject of numerous LGF posts, Abu Izzadeen (aka Trevor Brooks) has been convicted in Britain of inciting terrorism and faces a possible sentence of life in prison. A Muslim preacher who barracked former Home Secretary John Reid faces life in jail after he ...
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Thursday Open
Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:38:36 am PDT
A midday open thread, for the sheer heck of it.
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Abbas Revokes Awards to Terrorists
Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:48:17 am PDT
Change! Abbas: Awards to terrorists have been revoked. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas confirmed that plans to present two female Palestinian terrorists with a medal of honor have been withdrawn. Abbas informed Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik of the decision in a telephone call from Moscow late Wednesday. The Al Kuds Mark of ...
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CAIR and MSU Relocate Al-Arian Fundraiser
Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:22:42 am PDT
After Starplex Cinemas canceled their fundraising screening for jailed Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian, the UC Irvine Muslim Student Union and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) found another theater: New Venue for Al-Arian Fundraiser.
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Confirmed: Weakest Hit Piece Ever
Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:17:45 am PDT
Since it was published a couple of days ago, the total number of referrals from the link in that Village Voice hit piece: 157 By comparison, in the same time period we received 1,147 referrals from Instapundit, just from the link in his sidebar.
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The Breasts and Thighs of the Black-Eyed Virgins of Paradise
Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:54:47 am PDT
Here’s Saudi cleric Omar Al-Sweilem, from a low quality video posted on the internet, having a rapturous fantasy about sex after death. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Omar Al-Sweilem: Harith Ibn Al-Muhasibi told us what would happen when we meet the black-eyed virgin with her black hair and white face – ...
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Ferrigno: Missing Rush Limbaugh
Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:26:02 am PDT
Novelist Robert Ferrigno ([Amazon Link] and Sins of the Assassin) has a funny piece at National Review Online featuring the Clenis: Missing Rush Limbaugh.
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What the Hell is Wrong with the Washington Post?
Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:12:10 am PDT
Another unrepentant, genocidal terrorist is given op-ed column space in the Washington Post. This time it’s Hamas thug Mahmoud al-Zahar: Mahmoud al-Zahar - No Peace Without Hamas. I won’t quote from this garbage. The Washington Post has truly hit bottom now. They owe the United States an apology for publishing this disgusting ...
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Thursday Early Morning Open
Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:18:42 am PDT
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your ...
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Hillary-Obama Debate Thread 3
Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:57:16 pm PDT
Since ABC News is doing that charmingly antiquated 3-hour delay thing with their west coast broadcast of tonight’s Obama-Clinton snoozefest, here’s another open thread so the California lizards don’t feel left out...
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Obama: 'Pain Trickles Up'
Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:18:26 pm PDT
Barack Obama’s memorable statement on the anti-gravity properties of pain opens our next painful, bitter debate thread...
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Weakest Hit Piece Ever?
Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:03:35 pm PDT
The total number of click-throughs from that Village Voice hit piece, since it was posted yesterday, according to the logs: 116 I’m just sayin’. That’s nothing to be ashamed about, really.
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Hillary-Obama Debate Thread 2
Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:35:32 pm PDT
Another thread as Barack dodges another set of questions about his 20-year association with Rev. Wright, and Hillary apologizes for saying she dodged sniper fire. Whole lotta dodgin’ goin’ on.
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Dem Debate Webcast
Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:56:22 pm PDT
The Dems’ debate is being webcast live at ABC 6 in Philly: 6abc.com: Debate Analyzer and Pennsylvania’s Undecided Voters’ Demographics 4/16/08. ABC News is going old school and putting the circus on a three hour time delay for the west coast. UPDATE at 4/16/08 5:18:11 pm: Registration is open for a limited time. UPDATE ...
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Wednesday Afternoon Open
Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:59:17 pm PDT
An afternoon open thread, as we gird our lizardoid loins for tonight’s slugfest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, at 8pm ET on ABC. (Anyone know whether it’s live on the west coast, at 5 pm? Can’t tell from the ABC web site, or EyeTV’s schedule.)
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Islamic Jihad Turned Down Meeting Request from Jimmy Carter
Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:28:12 pm PDT
Hamas isn’t the only terrorist group with whom Jimmy Carter wants to engage in dialog, in search of peace and the destruction of Israel. Eric Trager at Contentions has a report that Carter also requested a meeting with Islamic Jihad. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) has announced that its leadership has ...
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Mahmoud Abbas Awards Highest Medal to Sbarro Mass Murderer
Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:02:12 am PDT
“Moderate” Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’s latest gesture of good will to advance the peace process: Abbas To Award PA’s Highest Medal To Hamas Terrorist Responsible For Sbarro Massacre.
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Village Voice Savages Righty Blogs
Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:23:18 am PDT
Here’s an indicator that the far left is concerned about the influence of “right-wing” blogs on this election, a risible hit piece in the Village Voice by Roy Edroso that reads like a Rosie O’Donnell rant: The Official Village Voice Election-Season Guide to the Right-Wing Blogosphere by Roy Edroso. LGF gets ...
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AP Story on Bilal Hussein Fails to Mention Amnesty Deal
Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:00:02 am PDT
The Associated Press story about the release of photographer Bilal Hussein, strangely, does not explain that Hussein was released because of a new Iraqi amnesty law—not because the charges were found to be without merit: AP photographer freed by US military after 2 years. This is how they summarize the situation, ...
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Wednesday Early Morning Open
Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:59:59 am PDT
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven. — William Shakespeare
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The Attack of the Two-Foot Blimp
Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 7:18:59 pm PDT
More photos from today’s Ron Paul-a-Ganza in Washington DC, at Age of Hooper (The).
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A Tale of Two Journalists
Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:37:13 pm PDT
Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein has been freed, under a new amnesty deal with the Iraqi government. On Monday afternoon, American military officials announced that they would release Bilal Hussein, a photographer for the Associated Press who has been in custody for two years on allegations of aiding insurgents. An ...
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US Muslim Groups Dissing Pope Benedict
Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:18:51 pm PDT
The radical Islamic front groups operating in the United States are declining to meet with Pope Benedict during his visit: US Muslim group declines to meet pope. NEW YORK - Unease with Pope Benedict XVI’s approach to Islam has led a U.S. Muslim group to decline joining in an interfaith ...
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Honey, I Shrunk the Paulian Blimp
Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:10:17 pm PDT
At This Ain’t Hell, a reminder that the Ron Paul ReLoveUtion is not dead, although it certainly smells funny: Paulians rally in DC. Hey, who shrank the blimp?
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Baracky: The Movie
Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:58:57 pm PDT
It’s a few days old so I might be behind the curve of this new viral intarweb phenomenon, but as an afternoon video break it isn’t bad. [Video]
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Tuesday Afternoon Open
Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:25:49 pm PDT
Here’s an open thread for Tuesday afternoon, as Pope Benedict arrives at Andrews Air Force Base for his first visit to the US.
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CAIR-Endorsed Pro-Terrorist Screening Canceled
Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:23:25 am PDT
The fundraiser event for jailed Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian, organized by the UC Irvine Muslim Student Union and promoted by the Council on American Islamic Relations, has been called off by theater management: Al-Arian Screening Canceled. Starplex Cinemas has no ties or relations with the organization that rented ...
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Rubin: Could There Be an Islamic Revolution in Turkey?
Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:54:35 am PDT
Michael Rubin on a little-known Turkish Islamist living in the US while pulling strings in Istanbul, and preparing to make a Khomeini-esque grand return to Turkey: Could there be an Islamic Revolution in Turkey? Few U.S. policymakers have heard of Fethullah Gülen, perhaps Turkey’s most prominent theologian and political thinker. ...
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Inverted Outrage Story of the Day
Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:32:50 am PDT
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group is upset with Jimmy Carter: Islamic Jihad slams Carter’s statements on rockets attacks. GAZA, April 15 (Xinhua) — The Islamic Jihad (Holy War) movement in Gaza has slammed on Tuesday the statements of former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, after he termed the rockets attacks ...
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Obama Would 'Immediately' Look Into Prosecuting Bush Officials
Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:55:08 am PDT
Yesterday Barack Obama told a Philadelphia reporter that if elected President, he would “immediately” ask his Attorney General to look into prosecuting former Bush officials for war crimes and torture: Obama would ask his AG to ‘immediately review’ potential of crimes in Bush White House. “What I would want to ...
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Carter Pays Tribute to Terrorist Mass Murderer
Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:31:35 am PDT
Jimmy Carter appears determined to do everything possible to legitimize Palestinian terrorism. In one of his more disgusting displays of pandering, today he laid a wreath on the grave of one of history’s most notorious mass murderers, Yasser Arafat, bearing the words, “President and Mrs. Carter.” This man is a complete ...
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Tuesday Early Morning Open
Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:15:00 am PDT
If people behaved like governments, you’d call the cops. — Kelvin Throop
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UN Official On Wild Goose Chase
Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 7:35:04 pm PDT
A UN official is planning to ask the spiritual leaders of the Islamic world to issue a fatwa prohibiting the use of children as suicide bombers. Good luck with that. BRUSSELS, April 12 (KUNA) — A top United Nations official is to travel to Iraq soon to look into the issue ...
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The Wonderful World of LGF Tags
Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 4:22:42 pm PDT
A new feature tonight: the Tag Storm, a massive page consisting of every LGF tag from my front page posts in “tag cloud” format, linked to our TagViewer. The recurring themes really ... uh ... stick out.
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Monday Afternoon Open
Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:12:54 pm PDT
The traditional thread of openness, as Barack Obama’s poll numbers take a big hit. Now with bonus Imeem playlist—the 44 minute improvised tour de force that opens Keith Jarrett’s [Amazon Link].
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Israel Declines Security Assistance for Carter
Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:03:37 am PDT
In a very unusual move, Israel has declined to provide assistance to Jimmy Carter’s Secret Service security team. JERUSALEM - Israel’s secret service has declined to assist U.S. agents guarding former U.S. President Jimmy Carter during a visit in which Israeli leaders have shunned him, U.S. sources told Reuters on ...
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Hamas MP: Islam Will Conquer Europe and the Two Americas (Video)
Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:14:44 am PDT
Broadcast on official Hamas television (Al Aqsa TV) April 11, 2008, Hamas member of Parliament Yunis Al-Astal explains that the destruction of the Jews is just a precursor to Islam’s conquest of the entire world. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) Jimmy Carter wants us to engage in dialog with people like this. [Video] ...
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Jimmy Carter: Public Relations Go-To Guy for Hamas
Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:24:11 am PDT
Everyone from the State Department to the mayor of rocket-besieged Sderot in Israel has been trying to tell Jimmy Carter that he’s making a very serious mistake by having a high-profile meeting with Hamas thug Khaled Meshaal. But Jimmy doesn’t want to hear it: Carter wants US talks with Hamas. ...
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Ontario 'Human Rights' Commission Drops Mindcrime Charges
Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:08:46 am PDT
Last week the Ontario Human Rights Commission dropped their absurd Kafkaesque “human rights” charges against Maclean’s magazine—not because their witch hunt was wrong and offensive, but because they “lacked jurisdiction.” But their statement makes it clear they intend to continue trying to control the free expression of ideas in Canada, especially ...
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'World Peace' Hitchhiker Murdered in Turkey
Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 8:32:30 am PDT
A sad, pathetic story of a moonbat Italian artist with a big idea that got her killed: ’World peace’ hitcher is murdered. An Italian woman artist who was hitch-hiking to the Middle East dressed as a bride to promote world peace has been found murdered in Turkey. The naked body of ...
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Monday Early Morning Open
Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 3:22:01 am PDT
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. — Albert Einstein
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Carter: 'I've Been Meeting with Hamas Leaders for Years'
Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 6:19:06 pm PDT
Jimmy Carter apparently intends to go ahead with his plan to meet Hamas thugazoid Khaled Meshaal where he’s hiding in Syria, despite the State Department’s admonition against it. Yes, the State Department disapproved of an idea by Jimmy Carter. Imagine that. Well, today Carter openly admitted he’s been sitting down for tea ...
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Sunday Afternoon Open
Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 3:47:38 pm PDT
Here’s an open thread for a danged hot Sunday afternoon. A curse upon your mustache, Al Gore.
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Tech Note: LGF URL Makeover with mod_rewrite
Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:22:34 am PDT
This weekend our aging, creaky, rather unfriendly URL scheme got an extreme makeover, courtesy of the Apache htaccess file and mod_rewrite. The cool thing is that this redesign doesn’t break any old URLs; if you’ve bookmarked an LGF page, or if you follow an older link from another site, it will ...
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Zombie: Audio of Obama's Elitist Remarks
Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 8:43:12 am PDT
Zombie has a decent quality audio file of Barack Obama’s “gun-toting Bible-thumping hicks” statement: Obama’s “bitter small-town Americans” speech at Getty fundraiser: good, clear audio file now available here! It isn’t getting a lot of attention, but also note that Obama was putting down small-town Americans in front of an audience ...
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Rev. Wright: Founding Fathers Planted White Supremacy in the DNA of America
Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 8:30:07 am PDT
Barack Obama’s pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, gave a eulogy yesterday and reiterated his crazy, hateful views, and his support for Louis Farrakhan, to thundering applause: Rev. Wright fires back. And get a load of how the Chicago Sun-Times minimizes Wright’s hate speech. The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., former pastor of ...
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Sunday Early Morning Open
Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 3:07:55 am PDT
Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment’s an ambush. — Horace
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Britain: 30 Active Terror Plots, 200 Networks, 22,000 Terrorists
Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 9:08:28 pm PDT
The Islamic terror threat in Britain is getting worse, and most of the government is in complete denial, refusing to do anything to deal with the situation: Smith says monitoring 30 U.K. terrorism plots. LONDON (Reuters) - British police and security agencies are currently monitoring 30 terrorism plots, Home Secretary ...
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Hitchens Confused on Categories
Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 7:45:33 pm PDT
AP tipped me to this one; the quote of the month from Christopher Hitchens, reported at The Independent: Furore over Hitchens’s sapphic slip. “Don’t know what came over me: the dear boy did suddenly seem extremely sapphic, yet I think my intuitions must have been scrambled all the same, since ...
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Saturday Playlist, Jazz Edition
Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 5:10:25 pm PDT
Another imeem playlist, strictly jazz tonight.
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New Features: Tag Cloud and TagViewer
Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 3:57:39 pm PDT
A couple of new goodies to announce tonight; I’ve been adding tags to LGF front page posts for quite a while, and finally got around to doing something with them. So we have some new tag-related features: * In the left sidebar, we now have a “tag cloud” — a group ...
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Saturday Afternoon Open
Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:58:33 pm PDT
I’m not usually a fan of flower closeup shots, but here’s one I took very quickly in bright sunlight (without focusing or even trying to hold the camera still) that came out surprisingly well.
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Mosque Bombed in Southern Iran
Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:12:43 pm PDT
A curious report from Iran: Iran bomb blast kills 8, injures over 50 - agency. TEHRAN, April 12 (Reuters) - A bomb blast in a mosque in southern Iran on Saturday killed at least eight Iranians in southern Fars province and injured more than 50 people, the semi-official Fars news ...
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America Needs A Lot More Saudi Students
Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:11:51 am PDT
What could possibly go wrong with this? US to Double Visas for Saudi Students. Al-JOUF, 10 April 2008 — US Ambassador Ford Fraker said in Sakaka that his country aims to double the number of student visas issued to Saudis. “Currently there are 15,000 Saudi students in the US,” he said ...
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Obama: 'I Didn't Say It As Well As I Should Have'
Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 8:58:55 am PDT
After initially trying to defend his remarks about gun-toting, tabacky-chewing, bitter Jesus freaks, Barack Obama is now backpedaling furiously. MUNCIE, Ind. - Democrat Barack Obama on Saturday conceded that comments he made about bitter working class voters who “cling to guns or religion” were ill chosen, as he tried to ...
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Olmert Tells Carter to Take a Hike
Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 8:29:37 am PDT
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has refused to meet with Jimmy Carter. (IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has turned down a request from former American president Jimmy Carter for a meeting during his visit to Israel next week. The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni both said that their ...
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Saturday Early Morning Open
Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 3:48:09 am PDT
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. — Michelangelo
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CAIR Supports Carter's Meeting with Hamas
Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:35:24 pm PDT
You might think that with all the negative publicity they’ve received lately for their connections to Hamas, the Council on American Islamic Relations would lay low for a while and refrain from openly shilling for the terrorist gang. You might think that, but you’d be wrong: CAIR: Jimmy Carter to Meet ...
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Playlist 2: Shred/Quiet Mix Version
Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:01:42 pm PDT
For a break from the usual grind, I’m messing around with imeem, and here’s a playlist I put together in about 10 minutes:
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Playlist: Keith Jarrett - Sun Bear Concerts
Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 3:53:16 pm PDT
Someone emailed about a web service called IMEEM that lets you upload music and (supposedly) legally embed playlists into a blog, so I’m trying it out with a playlist containing part of Keith Jarrett’s Sun Bear Concerts. (There may be advertisements.) UPDATE at 4/11/08 4:21:37 pm: Here’s a New York Times piece ...
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Friday Video: Monkey to Man
Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 3:19:58 pm PDT
I know I’ve probably posted this one before but I dig the song. Plus, it has babes go-go dancing in bikinis, gorilla suits, Elvis Costello, Darwinian evolution, and a righteous party groove. What more can you ask from one piece of music? Did I mention the babes? [Video]
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Friday Afternoon Open
Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:56:32 pm PDT
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Friday afternoon more in need of an open thread...
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Obama: Small-Town People Cling to Religion, Guns, and Xenophobia
Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:36:43 pm PDT
Obama’s latest misstep is recounted by Politico’s Ben Smith: Obama on small-town PA: Clinging to religion, guns, xenophobia. You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them...And they ...
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Fark: Young Iraqis Just Like Average LGF Lizards
Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:42:00 pm PDT
A New York Times article on young Iraqis who are sick to death of their medieval Islamic clerics has a classic Fark.com caption: After five years of seeing it close-up, the view of young Iraqis toward radical Islam is pretty much the same as the average poster on Little Green ...
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Zombie: Olympic Torch Protests
Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:27:51 pm PDT
Zombie’s photo essay on the Olympic Torch Tantrums in San Francisco is now up at PJ Media: Zombie Chronicles the Olympic Torch Relay in SF.
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Fundraising for Sami Al-Arian at UC Irvine
Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:02:14 am PDT
Radical Islamic front groups all over America are trying to rally sympathy for Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) leader Sami al-Arian, with propaganda films and fundraising events; and of course the MSU at University of California Irvine is especially active: Muslim Student Union Fundraising For Suspected Terrorist.
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An Outburst of Antisemitism in LA
Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:41:10 am PDT
When Israeli-American Daphna Ziman was given the Tom Bradley Award for community service recently by the African-American fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi, keynote speaker Reverend Eric Lee reportedly launched into an antisemitic diatribe directed at her; Pajamas Media has the story in a video interview with Ms. Ziman: Reverend Eric Lee’s ...
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Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:22:58 am PDT
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JPost: US-Israeli Report Shows Saddam Transferred WMDs to Syria
Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:08:41 am PDT
This is the second tantalizing hint from the Jerusalem Post that big news may be about to break in the long-running story of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction: ’Report on Sept. 6 strike to show Saddam transferred WMDs to Syria’. An upcoming joint US-Israel report on the September 6 ...
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Krauthammer: Bush's Attempt to Halt Iran's Nuke Program Has Failed
Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:55:12 am PDT
Charles Krauthammer is right on the money as usual; after all of President Bush’s tough words and promises, Iran is closer than ever to the ultimate weapon: The Advancing Iranian Nuclear Program. WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, Iran announced it was installing 6,000 more centrifuges — they produce enriched uranium, the ...
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Friday Early Morning Open
Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 3:41:00 am PDT
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. — Vincent Van Gogh
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Thursday Evening Open
Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:10:13 pm PDT
Tonight’s thread of openness is brought to you by dev/null... [Video]
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Reuters: The Pope Will 'Attack'
Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:50:01 pm PDT
Topics related to Pope Benedict have triggered lizardoid flame wars that have laid waste to more than one thread, so this looks like an interesting week coming up: Pope to attack might is right notion at UN. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Pope Benedict is unlikely to discuss specific world trouble ...
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And Now for Some Insane Acoustic Guitar
Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:06:52 pm PDT
Unless you’ve seen Monte Montgomery before, you’ve never seen acoustic guitar played like this. [Video]
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Rev. Wright: Keynote Speaker for NAACP Dinner
Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 2:28:19 pm PDT
The Detroit chapter of the NAACP has invited none other than the Reverend Jeremiah Wright to give the keynote address at the annual NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner: Guess who’s coming to town for dinner?
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What's Dick Cheney Looking At?
Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:05:42 pm PDT
A photograph of Dick Cheney posted at the White House web site has a strange reflection in his sunglasses. Some are suggesting it shows Cheney appreciating a bare naked lady, others think it may reveal a creature from another galaxy. I’m leaning toward the latter explanation. But if anyone can solve ...
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Most of Dan Rather's Lawsuit Dismissed
Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:13:15 am PDT
According to TVNewser, the judge in Dan Rather’s lawsuit against CBS has dismissed most of the case, leaving just the contract dispute. (Hat tip: Allahpundit.) In his lawsuit Rather claimed that the investigation into the Killian memos was biased, and that it did not prove the documents to be fakes. This ...
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State Dept to Jimmy Carter: Don't Meet with Hamas
Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:58:45 am PDT
You know Jimmy Carter’s gone a little too far when even the State Department disapproves: State Department: Carter should not meet Hamas chief. It’s just pathetic he should even need to be told. The US State Department said on Thursday it had advised ex-President Jimmy Carter against meeting the leader of ...
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Air America Dumps Randi Rhodes
Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:59:54 am PDT
Randi “14 Bloody Marys” Rhodes has been sacked by Air America, after calling Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro “f*cking bitches:” Rhodes Out At Air America, Back In San Fran.
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UK Muslim's 'Martyrdom Video'
Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:45:40 am PDT
TimesOnline has excerpts from the “martyrdom video” of Umar Islam, one of the British Muslims accused of planning a mass murder attack on several transatlantic jetliners: Times Online TV | Audio / Video.
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UN Israel Monitor Calls for Investigation of Neocons' Role in 9/11
Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:03:56 am PDT
You knew the United Nations was corrupt and evil, but the story of Richard Falk really takes the all-time prize. This lunatic must be dismissed from his UN position: U.N. Official Calls for Study Of Neocons’ Role in 9/11. WASHINGTON — A new U.N. Human Rights Council official assigned to ...
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Thursday Early Morning Open
Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:12:21 am PDT
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. — Walt Whitman
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Bin Laden's Right Hand Man Set for Life in Britain
Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:12:42 pm PDT
The Islamist known as “Osama bin Laden’s right hand man,” Abu Qatada, is now set for life on British benefits. One of the world’s most dangerous terror suspects was last night preparing for a life on benefits in Britain after judges ruled that his deportation would breach human rights law. Abu ...
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Kafka Time in Canada
Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:50:28 pm PDT
The Robespierre of Canada is going after Ezra Levant again—and several other Canadian bloggers: Richard Warman has sued me — and other conservative bloggers.
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Possibly the Most Geeked Out Open Thread Ever
Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 5:18:19 pm PDT
Here’s a totally geeked out way to introduce an open thread. Who knows, this might come in handy for some poor Apache admin out there; it wasn’t easy to find this type of script through Google. It’s no great work of programming art, just a quick, useful hack. What it is: ...
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Night of the Virus-Infected Zombie Computer
Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:55:33 pm PDT
Our post about zombie combat may have confused a few readers, but here’s a zombie threat that’s not a joke: Zombie Computers Decried As Imminent National Threat. SAN FRANCISCO — Gangs of thousands of zombie home computers grinding out spam, committing fraud and overpowering websites are the most vexing net ...
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Kramer: Dr. Esposito and the Seven-Percent Solution
Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:32:11 pm PDT
Martin Kramer looks at a slick new pro-Islam book by Professor John Esposito of Georgetown University—recipient of a $20 million donation from Saudi Arabia: Dr. Esposito and the seven-percent solution. Professor John L. Esposito runs a slick operation at Georgetown with $20 million of funding from Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed ...
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Tech Note: Good Deal on Blu-ray Discs
Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:22:01 pm PDT
If you have a Blu-ray disc player, Amazon has a great deal on Blu-ray titles right now: Buy Two Blu-ray Discs, Get One Free. And the discs themselves are discounted by about 30%. It’s good through April 18th.
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Bilal Hussein Gets 'Amnesty'
Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:56:38 pm PDT
AP photographer Bilal Hussein has received amnesty from the Iraqi government, under a new law. I was unable to find any details about this “new law,” but apparently it covers Hussein. BAGHDAD (AP) - An Iraqi judicial committee has dismissed terrorism-related allegations against Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein and ordered ...
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Another Palestinian Mass Murder Attack
Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:35:13 am PDT
An attempted kidnapping and mass murder attack by Palestinian terrorists — killing civilians in cold blood — and the mainstream wire services are scraping the bottom of the euphemism barrel to avoid using the dreaded — and obviously appropriate — T word: Nine killed as Gaza militants storm Israeli border. They’re ...
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Wednesday Morning Open
Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:49:14 am PDT
An open thread for Wednesday morning, since I missed the traditional early morning open thread today...
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Pure Antisemitism at Official Obama Site
Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:00:45 am PDT
Hosted at the official Barack Obama campaign web site, this blog post has been public since March 1, 2008: IKEY G-KHAN GALACTICCA’s Support Senator Barack Obama For US President Blog: Jews Cannot Afford Not To Support Obama. Obamanism is the cure for Clintonitis that has devastated America and I hope ...
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UN Hits Bottom, Digs
Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:23:17 am PDT
The new United Nations “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967,” Richard Falk, is really a winner. He’s a 9/11 Troofer. And he stands by his ridiculously offensive and extreme anti-Israel statements: UN expert stands by Nazi comments. The next UN investigator into Israeli ...
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Geert Wilders Demands That Blogs Remove Unedited 'Fitna'?
Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:12:34 am PDT
The Jawa Report: Rusty Gets a Cease and Desist Request from ... GEERT WILDERS? A little glimpse of how bad things really are in Europe.
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Teacher Blows Whistle on Minnesota Madrassa
Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 7:57:48 am PDT
Katherine Kersten exposes a publicly funded K-8 charter school in Minnesota that’s indoctrinating children into Islam, while pretending to be non-religious to keep receiving the infidel’s money: Teacher breaks wall of silence at state’s Muslim public school. Amanda Getz of Bloomington is a substitute teacher. She worked as a substitute ...
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Jimmy Carter Hits Bottom, Digs
Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:50:29 pm PDT
America’s worst president will now apparently meet with the leader of an openly genocidal Islamic terrorist gang: Report: Jimmy Carter to Meet With Hamas Leader in Syria. NEW YORK CITY — Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly preparing an unprecedented meeting with the leader of Hamas, an organization that the U.S. ...
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The 10 Most Hated People on the Web
Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:28:16 pm PDT
Markos “Screw Them” Moulitsas makes the top ten on another exclusive list: Meet the Web’s 10 most hated people. (Hat tip: Ace.)
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Wood Nymph
Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:03:13 pm PDT
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Petraeus Hearing Video Clips
Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 6:23:25 pm PDT
Primetime Politics has video clips from today’s Senate hearing with General Petraeus: The Petraeus Hearings.
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Israel Woos MoveOn.org, Daily Kos
Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:32:43 pm PDT
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if this resulted in some changes of heart? And wouldn’t it be wonderful if unicorns from space cured the common cold? US left-wing bloggers to visit Sderot. I hope these people open their minds and look past their deeply held prejudices, but I wouldn’t bet $0.10 on ...
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Zombie: Obama on Billionaires Row
Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:39:40 pm PDT
Here’s Zombie’s new report on Barack Obama’s visit to the upper crust of San Francisco: Obama Visits Billionaires Row.
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Anti-Government Riots in Egypt
Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:54:03 pm PDT
The Egyptian Sandmonkey reports from Cairo on the anti-government rioting in the city of Mahalla el-Kobra: Violent Riots Hit Egypt. UPDATE at 4/8/08 2:04:54 pm: More at Rantings of a Sandmonkey: We have come to see the Day...
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Tuesday Afternoon Open
Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:09:00 pm PDT
A midday thread of openness...
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The Diversity Show, Starring Michelle Obama: 'We Need More White People'
Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 10:31:28 am PDT
When Michelle Obama spoke at Carnegie Mellon University last week, her event organizers had a very specific purpose in mind as they handpicked the people who sat behind her: Michelle Obama speaks at presidential rally in Skibo Gym. While the crowd was indeed diverse, some students at the event questioned ...
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Petraeus Hearings, Open Thread 1
Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:32:51 am PDT
Here’s an open thread to discuss the Democrats’ effort to ignore General Petraeus and declare defeat in Iraq, now featuring Hillary Clinton in “antiwar” mode... UPDATE at 4/8/08 10:02:03 am: C-SPAN is carrying the hearing live over the web: C-SPAN: Watch LIVE. UPDATE at 4/8/08 10:21:10 am: According to commentators on the networks, Barack ...
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Rally for Petraeus
Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:24:57 am PDT
Photos and video from the rally for General Petraeus held this morning in Washington DC by Vets for Freedom, at This Ain’t Hell: Vets for Freedom Rally for troops.
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The Protocols of the Daily Kos: Hitler Was a Zionist
Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:42:28 am PDT
They just can’t help it. Loony antisemitic diaries keep getting posted at Daily Kos, no matter how much they try to stop them. They’ve encouraged and coddled, and winked and nodded at this kind of hatred for years, and now it bubbles up unpredictably in disgusting articles like this one: ...
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Tuesday Early Morning Open
Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:07:45 am PDT
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive. — Mark Twain
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Obama Campaign Hosts Anti-Israel Blog
Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:38:01 pm PDT
A blatantly—in fact, virulently—anti-Israel blog affiliated with ultra-left “Rabbi” Michael Lerner, hosted at the official Barack Obama campaign web site: Tony Wicher’s Blog for Peace.
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Odd Man Out
Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:35:48 pm PDT
At Augean Stables, Richard Landes asks an interesting question, as a rather unusual pro-Israel academic: What do my colleagues think?
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Rev. Wright: A Former Muslim
Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:26:51 pm PDT
Barack Obama’s pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, is an ex-Muslim, Nation of Islam style.
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The Door Opens - The Door Closes
Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 6:19:01 pm PDT
The registration door has creaked open, the lizards of Cerberus are on guard (see below), and you should read all the fine print. UPDATE at 4/7/08 6:45:54 pm: Now closed. 56 hatchlings on the delousing deck.
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JPost: Saddam's WMDs Found?
Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 6:05:06 pm PDT
An interesting report at the Jerusalem Post, subject to the 24/48 hour rule of verification of course: ‘Report on Sept. 6 strike to show Saddam transferred WMDs to Syria’. An upcoming joint US-Israel report on the September 6 IAF strike on a Syrian facility will claim that former Iraqi president ...
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Tech Note: Installing Leopard from a Disk Image
Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 5:40:39 pm PDT
Here’s a great tip at macosxhints.com that makes installing Leopard much, much quicker and easier; in a nutshell, you create a disk image of the DVD with Disk Utility, then run a special .mpkg file from the image: Install OS X to a different volume without rebooting. When you do this, ...
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CNN's Amanpour Equates US with Khmer Rouge
Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:16:23 pm PDT
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour does a story on the murder of more than two million Cambodians by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, and compares it to the United States using waterboarding on three top Al Qaeda terrorists to get information about imminent attacks. Yes, really. Two million Cambodians killed on one side, three terrorists ...
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Monday Afternoon Open
Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:16:28 pm PDT
Premature optimization is the root of all evil. — Donald Knuth
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Is Mookie Bailing?
Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:16:20 pm PDT
An interesting development in Iraq, where Muqtada al-Sadr may be looking for a way to throw in the towel: Al-Sadr calls for dialogue in Iraq. BAGHDAD - Aides to Muqtada al-Sadr called Monday for dialogue to resolve a violent standoff with the Iraqi government, saying that the radical Shiite cleric ...
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FBI Still Advertising on Pro-Terrorist Sites
Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:58:28 am PDT
The Investigative Project on Terrorism asks a simple question: For the Record: Seriously, What is the FBI Doing? In February, we exposed the latest FBI (and CIA) outrage, advertising for recruits in a pro-terrorist, anti-American magazine, the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Both of our top national security agencies ...
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Did Obama Hide His Father's Communist Ideology?
Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:14:32 am PDT
Barack Obama has written in his autobiography that he organized his life around the ideals imparted by his Kenyan father, Barak H. Obama, a Harvard-trained economist. So what were those ideals? PrestoPundit has found a 1965 paper written by Obama’s father, in which he advocates: — 100% taxation — communal farms / the ...
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Seven Things About Barack Obama
Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:46:05 am PDT
At zomblog: Seven Things About Obama I Never Knew Before.
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A Pro-Hizballah Demonstration in Los Angeles
Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:36:58 am PDT
Photos from an especially ugly anti-war and anti-Israel demonstration held in Los Angeles during the Israel-Lebanon War, at Ringo’s Pictures: Anti-War Protest in Los Angeles, CA - August 12, 2006. Featuring Muslim children holding signs supporting violent, genocidal terrorist groups.
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MTV's Offensive Holocaust Imagery
Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:31:00 am PDT
MTV uses Holocaust imagery to shock teens into believing America is turning into a police state. UPDATE at 4/7/08 10:06:20 am: AP thinks it’s possible these videos are intended to help kids understand the Holocaust: Video: MTV’s Holocaust PSAs. But please note that the spots prominently feature American “police,” speaking US English, in ...
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Leftists Idolize Islamic Jihad Leader
Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:11:38 am PDT
The new hero of the far left: the US leader of Islamic Jihad, an open advocate of suicide bombing and mass murder who was caught on film screaming “Death to Israel, death to America” and calling Jews the “sons of apes and pigs,” and who pleaded guilty to lesser charges ...
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Monday Early Morning Open
Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 3:21:22 am PDT
A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. — Samuel Grafton
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Sunday Evening Open
Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 9:28:53 pm PDT
An open thread for a Sunday evening...
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RoP Wants Geert Wilders' Head
Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 9:18:12 pm PDT
More than 25,000 raging Muslims turned out in Pakistan today, burning effigies and flags and screaming for blood, to show how much they resent being portrayed as uncontrollable violent madmen: Over 25,000 Pakistanis Rally Against Anti-Koran Film, Prophet Cartoons. KARACHI, Pakistan — More than 25,000 people rallied Sunday in the largest ...
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Al Jazeera's Avi Lewis Pushes Antisemitic Conspiracies
Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 8:54:41 pm PDT
Cleverly packaged and marketed antisemitism, disguised as “criticism,” from Al Jazeera’s English propaganda channel. Starring their token self-hating Jew, the despicable Avi Lewis. [Video]
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McCain/Rice?
Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 6:23:04 pm PDT
President John McCain and Vice President Condoleezza Rice? Political Radar: Dan Senor: Condoleezza Rice Is Pursuing the VP Spot. Talk about compromises.
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About 'Now Playing'
Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 5:51:46 pm PDT
Whenever the “Now Playing” widget appears in our left sidebar, I get emails from readers asking how they can hear that music I’m listening to, playing so tantalizingly near yet so frustratingly far. Well, the short answer is, “You can’t.” Not via LGF anyway, since I don’t want to call down ...
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Toronto Star Shills for Terror Suspects
Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 4:59:03 pm PDT
The Muslims arrested in 2006 for plotting mass murder attacks in Toronto are still in jail awaiting trial, even though Canada appears to be having some of the same trouble as the US with prosecuting terrorists in civilian courts. But even though no court has ruled on their guilt or ...
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And Now, the Turbolizard
Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 3:18:34 pm PDT
Are you ready for Barack Hussain Obama vs. Theodore Terbolizard?
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'In All Its Forms'
Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:48:42 pm PDT
Islamic scholars in India organized a large meeting to “denounce terrorism:” Clerics denounce terrorism at Hyderabad meet. The first clue that something isn’t right with this story is the phrase “in all its forms.” Hyderabad, April 6 (IANS) A massive public meeting organised by Islamic madrassas here has condemned terrorism in ...
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The Sky Below
Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:09:04 pm PDT
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Al Aqsa Terrorists Walk Out of Prison
Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 10:16:11 am PDT
This is what became of the “amnesty” deal that Israel made with West Bank terrorists: Al Aqsa militants break out of West Bank prison. “Break out?” Apparently, they walked out, and no one tried very hard to stop them. NABLUS, West Bank (AFP) - Twelve Palestinian militants escaped from a Palestinian-run ...
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WaPo/Newsweek Promoting CAIR Again
Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 9:30:31 am PDT
Promoted at the Washington Post/Newsweek “On Faith” site (a propaganda outlet for numerous Islamic radicals, including the spiritual leader of Hizballah), a meeting at Georgetown University: Islam and American Politics: Deepening the Dialogue. Featuring Nihad Awad, head of the radical Islamic front group CAIR, listed as unindicted conspirators in the ongoing ...
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RIP, Charlton Heston
Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 7:46:03 am PDT
There probably won’t be another actor like him; the man who played Moses has passed away at the age of 84. UPDATE at 4/6/08 7:48:55 am: They’ve closed comments for this story at the Huffington Post, because they’re afraid of their own readers: Charlton Heston Dead at 84 - Entertainment on The ...
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Sunday Morning Migration
Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 7:38:27 am PDT
Much better! After doing an “Erase and Install” of Mac OS on the new computer, this time I used a complete image backup of the old startup disk (created with SuperDuper), and chose to transfer the stuff at first startup. I let it run all night, and this morning—success! Everything ...
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Sunday Early Morning Open
Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 3:30:00 am PDT
No pithy quote tonight, just a notice that posting may be rather light this morning, as I take another crack at setting up my new Mac Pro...
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Saturday Migration Redux
Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:58:29 pm PDT
If at first you don’t succeed, curse a blue streak, erase the hard drive and reinstall Leopard, then use Migration Assistant with a full image backup of the old drive, and transfer the settings on the initial startup of the freshly installed OS instead of creating a throwaway account first. ...
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Saturday Migration Blues
Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:05:46 pm PDT
Well, Migration Assistant made a bit of a mess of things, I’m sorry to report. I tried to migrate the user account from my old computer to the new one, using a just-completed Time Machine backup on an external disk. But instead of creating a new user account with the ...
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Hitchens vs. Sullivan
Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:25:53 pm PDT
Primetime Politics has video of Christopher Hitchens vs. Andrew Sullivan on the Tim Russert show: Sullivan and Hitchens on Tim Russert.
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Saturday Afternoon Open
Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:23:47 pm PDT
Here’s an open Saturday thread, as I see whether Apple’s Migration Assistant lives up to its press releases...
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Video: Gaddafi Says, 'We All Hate Each Other'
Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 10:59:21 am PDT
Here’s Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s friend, Libyan nutbag dictator Muammar Gaddafi, in an extended, thoroughly bizarre speech (with moments of seeming clarity that appear out of nowhere) to the Arab League’s meeting in Damascus, at which nothing was achieved as usual. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video]
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MEMRI: Open Meeting with Sheikh Ayman Al-Zawahiri
Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 10:34:56 am PDT
MEMRI’s Islamic Web Sites Monitor Project has excerpts from Al Qaeda creepazoid Ayman al-Zawahiri’s little question and answer session with the admiring hordes of mujahideen: Open Meeting with Sheikh Ayman Al-Zawahiri. Zawahiri has a serious case of Islamophobia. Just look how he distorts the meaning of the word jihad, and tries ...
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British Muslims Wanted to Take Families on Suicide Missions
Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 10:10:07 am PDT
More repellent details from the 2006 Islamic terror plot to blow up multiple jetliners over the Atlantic: British Muslims in airliner terror plot ‘talked of taking families on suicide missions’. Members of a British Muslim terrorist cell discussed taking their wives and children on suicide missions to blow up transatlantic ...
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Hitchens vs. Sullivan
Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:26:29 am PDT
Christopher Hitchens is on Tim Russert’s show with Andrew Sullivan. I hadn’t seen Sullivan in a while and never read his blog any more, so it’s a tiny surprise to see how completely he’s transformed himself. Not a shred of the post-9/11 Sullivan remains; all that’s left is a rhetoric-spewing ...
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CBS/NYT Poll Hijinx
Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 8:56:47 am PDT
CBS and the New York Times stacking polls in favor of Democrats? Say it ain’t so.
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UC Irvine: America's Hate Speech Center
Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 8:45:38 am PDT
Here’s an update on the absolutely appalling situation at UC Irvine, where radical Muslim student groups have been allowed to run wild with hate speech and incitement against Jews, while the school administration denies the problem and local media take the side of the Islamists: OC Register Denies Anti-Semitism on ...
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Saturday Early Morning Open
Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:58:33 am PDT
And now, Doctor, we’ve done our work, so it’s time we had some play. A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums. — Sherlock Holmes
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ACLU: The Best Friend of America's Enemies
Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 8:21:04 pm PDT
Coming soon, courtesy of the ACLU: the most absurd media/legal circus ever imagined: MACLU tapping top legal talent to defend accused 9-11 conspirators. The American Civil Liberties Union, which for years has scorned Pentagon military commissions as “kangaroo courts,” announced Friday that it will try to provide top civilian defense ...
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We Got Mail: 'Buffaloes Stupid'
Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 6:01:26 pm PDT
Today someone with an IP address in Lahore, Pakistan used Google to search for “denmark sketches of holy prophet s (s),” found LGF in the top results, clicked the link, got really angry and began to seethe, then fired off the following email with a Hotmail return address that may ...
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Friday Evening Open
Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 4:37:49 pm PDT
Here’s an open thread as the much-anticipated 5pm reaches the west coast at the end of the work week... I love the new Mac Pro RAM cards. There are two boards that pop right out of the computer with a pair of finger holes. After removing them, you lay them on ...
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Video: Israeli Vets Care For Endangered Animals
Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:36:38 pm PDT
Here’s a very telling contrast to our earlier post about the rare sea turtle butchered by Palestinians (so they could drink its blood as an aphrodisiac): a CNN/IBN report from last month, about Israeli vets caring for and healing endangered sea turtles. (Hat tip: SoCal.)
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Friday Afternoon Open
Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:32:27 pm PDT
It’s a Friday afternoon open thread, as I start unpacking the new Mac Pro...
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Palestinians Slaughter Endangered Animal, Reuters Excuses
Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:41:22 am PDT
What does it take to get Reuters to defend the brutal slaughter of a rare endangered animal for superstitious reasons? Simple: the killers just need to be Palestinians. Rare turtle slaughtered in Gaza. Apr. 4 - Palestinian fishermen catch and kill a giant sea turtle, thought to be a Leatherback, an endangered ...
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Major IPT Report: CAIR Pushes Phony Charges of Anti-Muslim Hysteria, Hate Crimes
Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:09:06 am PDT
The Investigative Project’s definitive, devastating exposé of the radical Islamic front group called the Council on American Islamic Relations finishes today, with Part 10 of the series. This one looks at a CAIR tactic that has been used against LGF: CAIR Pushes Phony Charges of Anti-Muslim Hysteria, Hate Crimes. In ...
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Friday Early Morning Open
Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:20:07 am PDT
It is not a fragrant world. — Raymond Chandler
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Arab Survey: 55% Say Offensive Words Justify Violence
Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:51:54 pm PDT
A survey of Arabs conducted by YouGov reveals a strange mix of deep irrationality, denial, and self-contradicting views on the subject of religious extremism. A YOUGOV poll commissioned by the Doha Debates has concluded that nearly one-third of all Arabs believe that Saudi Arabia is at greater risk from religious ...
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The Door Opens - The Door Closes
Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:10:29 pm PDT
Registration is now open, for a very limited time. Read all the fine print, please, and play nice. And before registering, make sure you don’t have a spam filter that’s going to prevent you from receiving the confirmation email. UPDATE at 4/3/08 6:58:41 pm: Now closed, with 145 hatchlings on deck for delousing. ...
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Thursday Afternoon Open
Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:04:08 pm PDT
Thursday afternoon open thread, take #3,387...
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New Details About 2006 Transatlantic Terror Plot
Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:53:17 pm PDT
Details emerged from a British court today about the Islamic terror plot to blow up at least 7 jetliners simultaneously over the Atlantic, for which eight British Muslims were arrested in August 2006: British Muslims ‘planned to kill thousands by bombing SEVEN transatlantic airliners in one go’. They are: Abdulla ...
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Best Practices for Zombie Combat
Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:12:36 pm PDT
Practical advice at Wired.com: How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse.
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Jesse Ventura Goes Troofer
Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 1:22:33 pm PDT
Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura: Troofer. (Hat tip: dan.)
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A Blogging Candidate
Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:00:48 pm PDT
Blogger Joshua Sharf (of View From a Height) is running against a jihadi sympathizer for a Republican seat in the Colorado legislature: Hitting The Trail. (Hat tip: Soccer Dad.)
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Thursday Morning Open
Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:18:14 am PDT
Here’s an open thread while I shop for a new desktop computer. I’m starting to have hardware problems with my older G5 Power Mac; Firewire suddenly stopped working and none of the suggested fixes solved it (including pushing the special SMU reset button hidden on the motherboard) — which means ...
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UN Human Rights Council: Officially a Self-Mocking Joke
Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:49:06 am PDT
Islamic countries have succeeded in hijacking the United Nations Human Rights Council and perverting its intent (even more than it was already perverted): Arabs, Muslims battle US, Europeans over free speech at UN. GENEVA: Arab and Muslim countries defended Tuesday a resolution they pushed through at the United Nations to ...
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Major IPT Report: Leaders' Statements Illustrate CAIR's Extremism, Anti-Semitism
Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:13:16 am PDT
In part 9 of the Investigative Project’s devastating, highly detailed exposé of the Council on American Islamic Relations, the subject is CAIR’s blatant antisemitism and extreme hate speech: Leaders’ Statements Illustrate CAIR’s Extremism, Anti-Semitism. Repeated statements by CAIR’s leaders illustrate the group’s extremist and anti-Semitic positions. Today’s installment in the Investigative ...
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Thursday Early Morning Open
Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:12:29 am PDT
You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. — Walt Disney
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Oliver Stone Rushing to Finish Bush-Hating Movie
Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:08:08 pm PDT
Oliver Stone is rushing to finish his new film in time for the Presidential election, a film that asks the question, “How did Bush go from being an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world?” It’s a light-hearted fantasy. A real feel-good movie. Capra-esque, but with a touch ...
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Hamas Groundhog Day
Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:38:28 pm PDT
You’ve got to be kidding. Not this again. ’We accept state on ‘67 borders’. Hamas agrees to a Palestinian state established along the 1967 borders, exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal says. In an interview published Wednesday in Palestinian newspaper Al-Ayam, Mashaal referred to the 2006 prisoners’ document as proof of this, ...
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Firefox 3, Beta 5
Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:23:45 pm PDT
The last official beta version of Firefox 3 is out, it’s supposed to be even faster and most of the bugs are supposed to have been fixed, and it probably isn’t going to change too much more for the final release: Firefox 3 beta 5 now available for download.
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Now with Monitor Lizards
Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:54:35 pm PDT
I’ve been experimenting for a while with a system that gives certain trusted “monitor lizards” the ability to delete abusive/offensive comments, and things seem to be working very well, so here’s the official announcement: we’ve got monitor lizards! (Some of you probably figured it out already.) I set it up so ...
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Misogynist BNP Official Sacked
Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:11:42 pm PDT
The British National Party official who said “rape is a myth” has been sacked. A senior BNP official has been sacked as a London Assembly election candidate after he described rape as a ‘myth’ and said ‘some women are like gongs — they need to be struck regularly’. The BNP said ...
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Obama: 'I Won't Be Smiling'
Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:58:35 pm PDT
Obama snaps at an annoying photo-seeker: Scenes from the pool report: ‘I won’t be smiling’. I think what we're seeing here is someone who’s beginning to feel the pressure. Obama could have given the guy a photo in much less time than it took him to throw this little tantrum in ...
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Total Geek Thread
Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:13:14 pm PDT
Hey, anyone notice how much better LGF is behaving? The hamsters haven’t even hiccuped all week, and response time is greatly improved overall. The Safari browser has a cool Web Inspector that shows all kinds of stats about a web page as it loads, and it reports that loading the ...
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Wednesday Morning Open
Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:10:18 am PDT
Here’s an open thread for the morning of the middle of the week.
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Major IPT Report: CAIR Backs Islamist Meetings, Denigrates Muslim Moderates
Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:55:47 am PDT
The Investigative Project’s mammoth report on the true agenda of the Council on American Islamic Relations continues, with the eighth installment: CAIR Has Backed Islamist Meetings, Denigrated Muslim Moderates. * CAIR sponsored a 1994 U.S. tour by Jordanian Islamist leader Bassam Alamoush, CAIR News reporting that the group had coordinated ...
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Senior Church Leader: Ban the Mosque
Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:29:31 am PDT
A senior member of Britain’s General Synod of the Church of England is just begging for a fatwa. A senior Church of England member called yesterday for the building of mosques to be banned. Alison Ruoff said more construction would lead to Islamic no go areas dominated by exclusively Muslim populations ...
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NY Passes 'Libel Tourism' Protection Act
Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:44:51 am PDT
The Democracy Project has good news from New York, where the state legislature has passed a law to protect writers from being sued by Islamic billionaires. Saudi billionaire Khalid Salim Bin Mahfouz, who successfully sued Cambridge University Press last July, has failed in his efforts to silence Rachel Ehrenfeld. The American ...
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Yon: Holy Brothel
Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:24:26 am PDT
Michael Yon’s latest report highlights a classic example of jihadi hypocrisy: Holy Brothel.
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Wednesday Early Morning Open
Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:58:00 am PDT
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use. — Mark Twain
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Zomblog Debuts
Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 7:40:03 pm PDT
CODEPINK has a name for its pain, and the name is zomblog.
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Lizard on Radio
Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:06:30 pm PDT
It’s April Fool’s Day for Dr. Rusty Shackleford, with a mystery lizardoid guest. Listen here: BlogTalkRadio - The Jawa Report - The Jawa Report: Radio Edition. UPDATE at 4/1/08 6:42:27 pm: As the Dutch government considers legal action against Geert Wilders for making a 15-minute film of blasphemy, here’s the petition we ...
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Hizballah Seethes at Saudi Criticism
Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 4:39:52 pm PDT
It’s a radical Islamic Shia vs. Sunni slapfight, as Saudi Arabia refuses to back Hizballah: Hezbollah criticizes Saudi Arabia. BEIRUT, Lebanon - The Hezbollah militant group criticized Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, accusing it of siding with Lebanon’s Western-backed government in its power struggle with the Syrian-allied opposition. The comments came only ...
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Tuesday Afternoon Open
Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:42:24 pm PDT
I’m all out of guarantees, boss. — Stinky Beaumont
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NYT on Hamas 'Insults'
Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:17:26 pm PDT
Lots of readers emailed about this New York Times article by anti-Israel reporter Steven Erlanger, because the headline is so ludicrously understated: In Gaza, Hamas’s Insults to Jews Complicate Peace. Insults that complicate peace: suicide bombings, rocket attacks, random murder, genocidal intent, indoctrination of children into a death cult. Those kinds ...
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Major IPT Report: CAIR Seeks To Define Away Threat Posed by Radical Islamists
Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 10:57:17 am PDT
Part 7 of the Investigative Project’s huge report on CAIR’s true agenda focuses on their ongoing campaign of disinformation about jihad: CAIR Seeks To Define Away Threat Posed by Radical Islamists. Jihad? Fatwa? Wahhabism? Islamist terrorism? All terms distorted or created by the U.S. government and media to stigmatize the ...
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Senior BNP Leader: 'Rape is a Myth'
Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:20:34 am PDT
Ah yes, the British National Party, the troglodytes some bloggers (and some mainstream pundits) continue to insist we need to make our allies; what a lovely crew they are: Women are more troubled by bag theft than rape, says senior BNP candidate. A senior BNP leader with a strong chance ...
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Video: Obama's Campaign in Gaza
Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:05:41 am PDT
Al Jazeera reports on Barack Obama fans in Hamas-controlled Gaza, where Palestinians form internet groups to rally support for Obama in the US. They think he has the potential to bring real change to America. And we can guess what kind of “change” that might be. [Video] (Hat tip: Creeping Sharia.)
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Tuesday Early Morning Open
Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:10:03 am PDT
The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach. — Steven Wright
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