LGF Archives: May 2008
The First Notes of Hillary's Swan Song
Sat, May 31, 2008 at 7:21:51 pm PDT
We all know it’s coming, we just don’t know when: Hillary Clinton to be offered dignified exit. It’s clear that the Democratic Party believes a radical left candidate is their best chance to win the White House this year. Hillary’s just a little bit too sane. Under the bus with her. ...
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Obama's Church Bus Throw, Thread 2
Sat, May 31, 2008 at 6:08:30 pm PDT
Well, CNN and MSNBC are downplaying it for all they’re worth, and even Fox News is curiously low-key, but LGF readers seem to have plenty to say about Obama’s departure from Trinity United Church, so here’s another open thread...
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Obama to Speak on Church Bus Throw
Sat, May 31, 2008 at 5:00:47 pm PDT
Barack Obama is expected to speak soon about his 20-years belated decision to leave Trinity United Church, and here’s a thread to discuss it.
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Breaking: Obama Throws Church Under Bus!
Sat, May 31, 2008 at 3:29:23 pm PDT
Now the headline at CNN.com: Barack Obama has resigned as a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, his campaign says. He’s doing it on a Saturday afternoon to try to avoid as much media frenzy as possible. UPDATE at 5/31/08 3:58:19 pm: Why isn’t this the leading story ...
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UK Muslim Public Affairs Council Making Lists
Sat, May 31, 2008 at 2:24:17 pm PDT
If you ever find yourself spending valuable time to compile lists of your Zionist enemies and their secret motivations, it’s a sign that you may need a shrink: Categorizing American Islamophobes - MPACUK :: Muslim Discussion Forum. Category 1: The Seed Planters Examples: Steve Emerson, Daniel Pipes, Bernard Lewis Usual Profession: Academics Main ...
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Tech Note: Top 10 Comments
Sat, May 31, 2008 at 1:22:14 pm PDT
In our left sidebar you will now discover a widget titled “Top 10 Comments.” When you click it, you’ll see the top-rated comments posted by LGF lizards during the last 24 hours. The list of top comments is produced with an Ajax call, so it updates each time it’s displayed. To ...
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Palestinian Work Accident Watch
Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:50:37 am PDT
Another mysterious blast at the residence of a terrorist; do you think maybe they’re hiding explosives in their houses? Palestinian killed in Gaza house blast: medics. GAZA CITY (AFP) - A Palestinian was killed and another 16 were wounded on Saturday in an early morning explosion at a house owned ...
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UC Irvine Muslim Student Union Posts Dozens of Videos at YouTube
Sat, May 31, 2008 at 9:26:21 am PDT
The Muslim Student Union at UC Irvine has posted more than 80 videos of their events at YouTube: YouTube - Cfalcon7688’s Videos. Anti-Americanism, antisemitism, Holocaust denial, open advocacy of armed insurrection in the US, support for terrorist groups, Rachel Corrie’s parents, they’re all here. What’s happening at UC Irvine is simply ...
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Soros Publisher 'Shaped' McClellan's Hit Job
Sat, May 31, 2008 at 8:41:26 am PDT
As we revealed Wednesday, the publisher of former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s Bush-bashing book has close ties to George Soros. At American Thinker, William Tate observes that other publishers approached by McClellan don’t even recognize it as the same book.
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Saturday Early Morning Open
Sat, May 31, 2008 at 3:28:55 am PDT
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I’ve heard it in the chilliest land And on the strangest sea; Yet, ...
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Friday Night Video: Nicholas Barron
Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:34:14 pm PDT
None of that sensitive stuff here. Nicholas Barron is funky. [Video]
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Reuters: Bickering, Squabbling, Can't We Just Surrender Already?
Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:26:04 pm PDT
Reuters is getting tired of the bickering and squabbling over small issues: Obama, McCain bicker over troop levels in Iraq. GREAT FALLS, Montana (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama squabbled with Republican John McCain on Friday over the number of U.S. troops in Iraq in the latest disagreement between the two ...
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Friday Afternoon Open
Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:46:10 pm PDT
A change came o’er the spirit of my dream. — Lord Byron
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The Kaffiyeh: More Than Just a Scarf - Update: ANSWER Calls for Dunkin' Donuts Boycott!
Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:49:14 pm PDT
Any more questions about whether the kaffiyeh is “just a scarf,” or a well-known symbol of Palestinian “resistance?” An article by Mafaz al-Suwaidan in the very leftist, pro-Palestinian Toronto Star makes the point beautifully: More than just a chic checkered scarf. “The kaffiyeh is a visual extension of our struggle, a ...
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Lots More Warbots On the Way
Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:13:29 pm PDT
Thousands more warbots are being readied to hit the ground in Iraq. In December, after all the lawsuits, the private eyes and the backroom deals, iRobot finally wrestled away the biggest ground-robotics contract in military history from its former employee and his secret partner. This “unmanned surge” was worth up ...
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Silly Moonbat Story of the Day
Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:35:23 pm PDT
The idiots who want to “Recreate 68” at the Denver Democratic Convention, led by the ACLU, are demanding that the city of Denver reveal how they’re planning to stop demonstrators from disrupting the convention: ACLU Sues Denver For Democratic Convention Weapons Information. The city told them to buzz off. DENVER (CBS4) ...
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Tech Note: Character Encoding Bug Hunt
Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:14:10 am PDT
An open thread for a Friday morning; I’m chasing down a long-running, very annoying character translation bug, that causes Western European characters (with accènts, ümlauts, etc.) to show up as garbage when the Ajax system transfers them back and forth from the server. I’m pretty sure I’ve finally killed the bug, ...
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The Carter-Obama Connection
Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:25:41 am PDT
An Obama presidency would be a rerun of the disastrous Jimmy Carter years. Doesn’t that sound like fun? Even TIME Magazine notes the similarities: In Carter’s Shadow. Of the two likely nominees this year, Obama is closest to Carter in background and policy leanings. The parallels between his campaign so ...
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Another Kaffiyeh Wearer Gets in Trouble
Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:48:56 am PDT
A store employee in Australia has gotten in trouble for wearing a kaffiyeh: Keffiyeh kerfuffle hits Bondi bottleshop. More overreacting right-wingers, seeing terrorist symbols where they don’t exist? No; this time a Palestinian customer complained because she was wearing it for fashion reasons, rather than as a political statement. Ms Tieger said ...
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Obama 'Deeply Disappointed,' Had No Idea, Shocked
Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:09:12 pm PDT
Barack Obama is “deeply disappointed” by another hate preacher tonight—another hate preacher that he apparently just learned about for the first time today, despite attending Trinity United Church for 20 years: Obama distances himself from another clergyman after speech. CHICAGO - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday that he ...
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RIP, Harvey Korman
Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:57:51 pm PDT
One of our greatest comedians has passed away. Rest in peace, Harvey Korman. [Video]
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NYT Blogs the Kaffiyeh Kontroversy
Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:47:12 pm PDT
New York Times “blog” The Lede has a surprisingly even-handed (for them) article on the kaffiyeh controversy: Doughnuts: The Third Rail of American Politics? - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog. And yes, I’m still getting hate mail over this one. Who knew there were so many ...
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Daily Kos: A 'False Flag Attack' on Obama Will Set the Stage for Nuking Iran
Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:42:46 pm PDT
Where can a moonbat go when its conspiracy theory is even too whacked out for the Huffington Post? (Yes, apparently, there are some things too whacked out for HuffPo.) Daily Kos: What I couldn’t say on Huffpo. McBush and company are counting the days before Obama will return to Iraq. Nothing ...
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Video: More Hate Speech at Barack Obama's Church
Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:09:06 pm PDT
An amazingly hateful anti-Hillary, anti-white tirade at Barack Obama’s church in Chicago by Catholic priest Michael Pfleger. You won’t believe this. Michelle Malkin has a transcript. [Video]
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Don't Like Terrorist Symbols in Pop Culture? You Racist!
Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:15:16 pm PDT
If you object to celebrities wearing well-known symbols of Palestinian terrorism, you’re a racist. Amahl Bishara, an anthropology lecturer at the University of Chicago who specializes in media matters relating to the Middle East, said complaints about the scarf’s use in the ad demonstrate misunderstandings of Arab culture and the ...
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The Return of the Incredibly Strange Palestinian Police Cadets With Substandard Pants
Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:05:20 pm PDT
As part of the ludicrous attempt to convince the world that the Fatah government of Mahmoud Abbas is “moderate” and working against terrorism, the wire services periodically release photographs of Palestinian police in training, and we’re all supposed to marvel at their prowess at martial arts and jumping through flaming ...
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Thursday Morning Open
Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:07:23 am PDT
While it’s still morning on the left coast, here’s an open thread...
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The Soros-Obama Connection
Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:11:28 am PDT
Adding to Stanley Kurtz’s article on Barack Obama’s long-term association with the far-left group ACORN, an Investor’s Business Daily profile makes another connection, to the guy whose money finances so many of these groups: George Soros: The Man, The Mind And The Money Behind MoveOn. Soros’ efforts go beyond ...
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LGF-Haters Ranting Again at Fark.com
Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:28:27 am PDT
The good thing about getting a link at Fark is that since I spent a lot of time tuning our server and database settings, we no longer get knocked offline by the surge in traffic. The other good thing is that a link at Fark inevitably provokes another hilarious round of ...
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Acorn: Another Radical Group in Barack Obama's Closet
Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:43:05 am PDT
Stanley Kurtz has another bombshell article today, on Barack Obama’s extensive connections to one of the most virulent anti-capitalist far-left groups operating in the United States: Inside Obama’s Acorn. What if Barack Obama’s most important radical connection has been hiding in plain sight all along? Obama has had an intimate ...
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What's Important to Google? Answer: Mountain Climbing
Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:09:20 am PDT
Google couldn’t be bothered to recognize Memorial Day (even though they’ve been confronted about it every year for at least 3 years), but today they have a nice little logo commemorating the climbing of Mount Everest.
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The Soros-McClellan Connection
Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:28:40 pm PDT
The hat tip for this post goes to LGF reader John Williams in Texas. The company that published Scott McClellan’s new Bush-bashing book is PublicAffairs Books, and their Editor at Large is a guy named Peter Osnos: About The Century Foundation. The owner of PublicAffairs Books is a company called Perseus Book ...
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Quote of the Day
Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:56:32 pm PDT
I don’t even notice the color of his skin. I do notice the thinness of it, though. — Dennis Miller, on Barack Obama
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Wednesday Afternoon Open
Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:55:28 pm PDT
An open thread for the middle of the week...
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Guardian Moonbat Beclowns Self
Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:20:23 pm PDT
The American word for a person who exhibits this kind of behavior is “doofus.” Or tool. That works, too. Security guards blocked the path of columnist and activist George Monbiot, who tried to make the arrest as Mr Bolton left the stage. The former ambassador - a key advisor to President ...
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Ferrigno: When Presidents Meet
Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:13:20 pm PDT
Robert Ferrigno gazes into his crystal ball and sees a room at the Four Seasons hotel, sometime during the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency: Ahmadinejad Sets Lance Straight. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad watched as two of his bodyguards checked the young room service fellow, doing a quick spectrographic scan of ...
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Church of England: UK Will Be an Islamic State in 30 Years
Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:45:22 am PDT
At the Church of England’s official newspaper, an extraordinary (in a very bad way) editorial says Britain will be an Islamic state within 30 years. If recent reports of trends in religious observance prove to be correct, then in some 30 years the mosque will be able to claim that, ...
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Nuclear Terror Prank!
Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:22:03 am PDT
According to Evan Kohlmann at Counterterrorism Blog, that latest Al Qaeda “nuclear threat” was a prank of some kind.
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Guardian Columnist to 'Arrest' John Bolton?
Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:32:30 am PDT
British über-moonbat “journalist” George Monbiot is apparently going to attempt a citizen’s arrest of John Bolton, after he speaks at a UK literary festival. George Monbiot, the journalist and activist, is planning the action because he believes Mr Bolton is a “war criminal”. He said he was surprised that Mr Bolton ...
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The Kaffiyeh Controversy
Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:41:39 am PDT
Would you believe I’m still getting hate mail from leftists and Rachael Ray fans over this post? As usual, the “progressives” refuse to see anything wrong with the mainstreaming of the kaffiyeh, and deliberately misconstrue the criticisms in outlandish ways—for example, claiming that I said Dunkin’ Donuts and Rachael Ray have ...
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CAIR Seething Over Another Dress Code
Wed, May 28, 2008 at 8:44:12 am PDT
Here we go again, with yet another demand by Muslims for special treatment in the workplace, backed up by the Saudi-funded, Hamas-linked Council on American Islamic Relations: Muslim women: Dress code violates faith. Their employer requires them to wear “immodest” clothing, they say. Definition of “immodest” in this case: you can ...
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WaPo Fact Checker: Shouldn't a Presidential Candidate, Like, Know Stuff?
Wed, May 28, 2008 at 8:09:36 am PDT
The Washington Post “Fact Checker” has been going very easy on Barack Obama, but today they’re actually asking the pertinent question about Obama’s “Auschwitz” tale: Where in the world is Auschwitz? - Fact Checker. Granted, it is getting late in the campaign. The candidates are tired, and prone to making ...
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Nation of Islam to Police Miami
Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:52:33 am PDT
Now, this sounds like a fantastic idea; put one of the most virulent hate groups operating openly in the US in charge of fighting crime in Miami: Muslim group to help keep peace in Miami’s Overtown. What could possibly go wrong? Seeking a balance between outreach and enforcement, Miami is launching ...
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Wednesday Early Morning Open
Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:13:43 am PDT
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. — John Sladek
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UN Peacekeepers Raping Children
Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:36:32 pm PDT
More disgusting cases of child abuse by United Nations peacekeepers and NGOs: Peacekeepers ‘abusing children’. Children as young as six are being sexually abused by peacekeepers and aid workers, says a leading UK charity. Children in post-conflict areas are being abused by the very people drafted into such zones to help ...
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Daily Kos: McCain Cheek Cancer Returns
Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:21:35 pm PDT
Stay classy, Kos Kids: Daily Kos: [Breaking]: McCain cheek cancer returns. Commenters are all appalled, of course. But somehow these hateful diaries just keep appearing, day after day, year after year.
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HuffPo Supporting the Troops Again
Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:11:54 pm PDT
The lovely denizens of Huffington Post are having an orgy of troop-bashing, in the comments for an article about the ludicrous claims of the “Winter Soldier” rerun crowd: Iraq Soldier Discusses His ‘Kills’ (VIDEO) - Politics on The Huffington Post. Prediction: they’ll close the comments for this one. I’m surprised they ...
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Dalrymple: A Confusion of Tongues
Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:04:52 pm PDT
Here’s an interesting piece by Theodore Dalrymple at City Journal, on Britain’s struggle to assimilate immigrants: A Confusion of Tongues. London is now the most ethnically diverse city in the world—more so, according to United Nations reports, even than New York. And this is not just a matter of a ...
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Al Qaeda Still Threatening Nuke Attacks
Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:59:44 pm PDT
They don’t seem to have the capability for real, at this point anyway, but there’s no denying their desire: The Jawa Report: Video Urges Nuclear Jihad Against US [UPDATE: ‘Code’ Threatens September 2008 Attack?]
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Obama's Auschwitz Tale: Not the First Time
Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:52:31 pm PDT
Rand Simberg points out that Obama’s “Auschwitz” story is nothing new. He was telling similar stories about his grandfather back in 2002, in his now-famous Iraq speech, which I’d never previously read: My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton’s army. ...
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Tuesday Afternoon Open
Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:08:36 pm PDT
All right then, let’s have an open thread, shall we?
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Images from Another Planet
Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:24:19 pm PDT
Photographs from Mars, courtesy of the Phoenix Mars Mission at the University of Arizona. In this photo you can see the attached CD that contains “Messages from Earth,” for any Martians who happen to ramble by. It has a little picture of the skipper from Gilligan’s Island on it. (Kidding.)
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Dem. Representative Condemns UCI Antisemitism
Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:33:10 am PDT
Democratic Representative Brad Sherman has urged the Chancellor of UC Irvine to condemn the antisemitic hate speech and open support for terrorism of the campus’s branch of the radical Islamic front group calling itself the Muslim Student Union. More on the UC Irvine MSU, at the Terrorism Awareness Project: The Muslim ...
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Obama: My Uncle Helped Liberate Auschwitz (Bzzt! Wrong!) - Update: Video Added
Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:06:17 am PDT
Is there a point at which the media will start calling Barack Obama out for his absolutely stunning lack of historical knowledge, and his willingness to lie at the drop of a hat? Obama Talks of Family’s Military Service. Obama also spoke about his uncle, who was part of the ...
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Yet Another Anti-Israel Obama Adviser
Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:26:20 am PDT
Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser to Hamas-hugging Jimmy Carter during his disastrous presidency, is now a foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama. Brzezinski says that the Jewish Lobby is too powerful in the US, and uses the media to shut down criticism and influence the government. Antisemitism, anyone? Oh, I forgot, ...
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Tuesday Early Morning Open
Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:41:22 am PDT
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. — Mark Twain
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Mars Photo of the Day
Mon, May 26, 2008 at 6:55:52 pm PDT
How cool is this? A satellite orbiting Mars actually got a photo of the Phoenix probe parachuting down to the surface. PASADENA, California (Reuters) - A sharp-eyed Mars orbiter snapped an image of sister probe Phoenix descending through Martian skies toward a polar landing site to search for water and ...
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Tech Note: Internet Explorer 'Adjustments'
Mon, May 26, 2008 at 6:39:35 pm PDT
Actually, they’re “regressions,” not “adjustments.” Versions 6 and 7 of Internet Explorer have bugs that prevent our new comment reporting and user profile features from working correctly; it appears that these versions of IE get very cranky if you try to create an IFRAME via Javascript that fills the entire ...
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Tech Testing Thread
Mon, May 26, 2008 at 1:51:53 pm PDT
This thread is going to be for testing purposes — don’t post any comments here that you wouldn’t mind being deleted. For that matter, the whole thread may disappear. The game is afoot.
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Monday Afternoon Open
Mon, May 26, 2008 at 1:04:00 pm PDT
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. — Abraham Lincoln
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What's Important to Google?
Mon, May 26, 2008 at 9:33:08 am PDT
In 2005, Google issued the following explanation for their failure to create a customized logo for Memorial Day: We have to balance this rotating calendar with the need to maintain the consistency of the Google homepage. Furthermore, Google’s special logos tend to be lighthearted in nature. If we were to commemorate ...
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Memorial Day 2008
Mon, May 26, 2008 at 8:20:26 am PDT
In memory of all the men and women who gave their lives to protect the country we love.
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Why Does Jimmy Carter Hate America?
Mon, May 26, 2008 at 8:09:48 am PDT
This may be the lowest point of his disgraceful career of failure and appeasement: Carter urges ‘supine’ Europe to break with US over Gaza blockade. Jimmy Carter is actively subverting the policies of his own country, and lending the legitimacy of a former president to a vicious, genocidal terrorist group. Britain ...
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Down the Memory Hole with Daily Kos (Again)
Sun, May 25, 2008 at 9:46:44 pm PDT
That Daily Kos diary wishing death and mutilation on people who won’t vote for Barack Obama has now vanished down the memory hole. But this incredibly vile antisemitic diary remains: Daily Kos: Eulogy before the Inevitability of Self-Destruction: The Decline and Death of Israel.
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Canada's Not-So-Secret Islamic Polygamy
Sun, May 25, 2008 at 7:07:33 pm PDT
The result of an unthinking leftist approach to immigration, now on display in Toronto: GTA’s secret world of polygamy. There were no pleasantries, there was no small talk. Safa Rigby had expected to hear her husband’s voice when the phone rang one morning. Instead, the caller didn’t even bother to ...
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Generating Station
Sun, May 25, 2008 at 5:45:07 pm PDT
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Phoenix Descending
Sun, May 25, 2008 at 4:22:43 pm PDT
A live feed from the NASA control room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, as the Phoenix mission prepares to land on Mars: msnbc.com video: NASA gets set for Mars landing. UPDATE at 5/25/08 4:25:10 pm: Another live feed at NASA TV. UPDATE at 5/25/08 4:55:17 pm: Looks like a complete success — ...
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Iowahawk: Dear Barry
Sun, May 25, 2008 at 3:16:07 pm PDT
At Iowahawk’s pad, more problem-solving tips from America’s premier relationship expert: Dear Barry. Dear Barry: I try to get along with the people in my neighborhood, but sometimes it can be difficult. Take for example my neighbor “Mahmoud.” Last weekend while I was seeding my lawn, he drove back and forth ...
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Video: Ken Miller on Intelligent Design
Sun, May 25, 2008 at 1:22:18 pm PDT
Here’s a fascinating presentation at Case Western University on evolution and intelligent design by renowned biologist Ken Miller, dealing with many of the arguments of ID proponents (for example, Michael Behe’s “irreducible complexity”). It’s almost two hours long, but well worth watching if you’d like to get deeper into the ...
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Daily Kos: Hope, Change, and Gruesome Death
Sun, May 25, 2008 at 9:50:52 am PDT
The campaign of Barack Obama is all about hope, and no one exemplifies this better than the Daily Kos Kidz, who are hoping for the gruesome death and/or mutilation of anyone who won’t vote for the Messiah: Daily Kos: Won’t vote for Obama? Then it’s time to enlist. If you’re ...
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Obama: Bush is Responsible for Chavez (Bzzt! Wrong!)
Sun, May 25, 2008 at 9:06:22 am PDT
On Friday Barack Obama spelled out his Latin America policy (it’s just like his Middle East policy—talk to everybody), and inadvertently supplied another example of his stunning ignorance of history and naive foreign policy ideas. The speech is transcribed at the official Obama campaign web site: Renewing U.S. Leadership in ...
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Dunkin' Donuts Pulls 'Kaffiyeh' Advertisement
Sun, May 25, 2008 at 8:34:09 am PDT
Received from Dunkin’ Brands Customer Service this morning (along with two more hate mails from Rachael Ray fans): Thank you for expressing your concern regarding the Rachael Ray advertisement. In the ad that you reference, Rachael is wearing a black-and-white silk scarf with a paisley design that was purchased ...
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Muslim Gangs Taking Control of UK Max Security Prison
Sun, May 25, 2008 at 8:03:08 am PDT
Al Qaeda-influenced gangs of radical Islamists are taking control of Whitemoor maximum security prison—and the British government response is to wring their hands about “Islamophobia” and make the staff take “sensitivity to Islam” courses. Prison officers at one of Britain’s maximum security jails are losing control to Muslim gangs, according ...
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Sunday Early Morning Open
Sun, May 25, 2008 at 2:58:33 am PDT
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place. — Washington Irving
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And Now: The Racial Resentment Index
Sat, May 24, 2008 at 7:57:49 pm PDT
Now featured at Newsweek: the white people’s ‘Racial Resentment Index’. Oh brother.
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Tech Note: User Profiles Now with Ajax
Sat, May 24, 2008 at 3:07:23 pm PDT
As we continue to Ajaxify the LGF Blog Engine, the latest new feature is the user profile display, which appears when you click on a commenter’s personal icon. (Or if they haven’t uploaded a personal icon, the tiny green football.) Instead of opening a new window with the profile data, it ...
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Obama: Hello, Sunshine!
Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:30:23 am PDT
Look! Up in the sky, wearing a halo, immune from media criticism—it’s Gaffe Man! At four different points during the speech, Obama referred to the town as “Sunshine,” as opposed to “Sunrise.” Amazingly, the crowd of 16,000 played along and no one corrected him. Sunrise is a city in Broward ...
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CAIR Sabotaging Anti-Terror Training in Seattle
Sat, May 24, 2008 at 9:53:52 am PDT
In Seattle, the Hamas-linked Council on American Islamic Relations is doing what it always does—sabotaging efforts to educate law enforcers about Islamic terrorism: Does course on Islam give law enforcers wrong idea? And again, the Seattle Times quotes representatives of CAIR without a single word about their ties to terrorist groups ...
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Terror Parties in Turkey
Sat, May 24, 2008 at 9:32:06 am PDT
In the showcase “moderate” Islamic state of Turkey, Islamist agents of Hamas and Hizballah organize events calling for the destruction of Israel and America: Pro-Hizbullah, Pro-Hamas Islamists Organize “Free al Quds, World Without Israel” Events. Radical Turkish Islamists organize nights in many Turkish cities under the slogan, “A free Al-Quds, ...
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Hatin' LGF at Salon.com
Sat, May 24, 2008 at 9:04:08 am PDT
Lots and lots of hate for LGF in the comments for this typically misleading and dishonest post at Salon.com: Letters: Another reason to hate Rachael Ray - Salon. Please do not post links to LGF in your articles Or any other right-wing psycho ward site, for that matter. It only encourages ...
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Media Hyperventilating Over Hillary, Ignored Mrs. Obama
Sat, May 24, 2008 at 8:44:01 am PDT
The ridiculous media hyperventilation over Hillary Clinton’s remark about Robert Kennedy’s assassination is just one more indication of their stunningly over the top bias in favor of Barack Obama. Here’s a Hot Air video from more than a year ago in which Obama’s wife Michelle speculates not about RFK, but specifically ...
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Saturday Early Morning Open
Sat, May 24, 2008 at 2:56:21 am PDT
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. — Dan Quayle
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Hillary Becomes a Republican
Fri, May 23, 2008 at 7:29:47 pm PDT
Hillary Clinton is finding out what it’s like to be a Republican tonight, as MSNBC and CNN and the Associated Press go for her jugular vein; she mentioned the assassination of Robert Kennedy as an example of how things can change in an election’s late innings, and the left wing ...
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Friday Night Video: Pork and Beans
Fri, May 23, 2008 at 6:06:17 pm PDT
A stupidly great video for an average Weezer song, perfect for a slow news Friday Night on a Memorial Day weekend, from the upcoming [Amazon Link]. [Video]
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Terror T-Shirt Merchant Answers Critics
Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:09:04 pm PDT
The maker of that T-shirt that Urban Outfitters was selling (they’ve since dropped it from their catalog), with pictures of Palestinian children brandishing weapons under a peace dove and the slogan “Victimized,” has a very special message for LGF readers and others who criticized his sick piece of trash, at ...
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Tech Note: New Link Reporting Feature
Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:30:52 pm PDT
Extending our comment reporting feature to the spinoff links feature is a natural. Like comments, the links are content supplied by our users, and occasionally a link will be posted that is inappropriate for one reason or another and needs to be deleted. So, when you’re logged in to your LGF ...
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UN's Clouseau to Investigate Phony Phobia
Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:58:34 am PDT
Adding to our earlier report, it appears that United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance Doudou Diène has another mission on his visit to the United States, in addition to investigating contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance in ...
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Update: Verbal Assault Memo a Hoax?
Fri, May 23, 2008 at 8:49:30 am PDT
Bob Owens investigated that memo about soldiers being verbally assaulted on the Washington DC Metro, and discovered there was less to it than meets the eye: Pajamas Media » Are Soldiers Really Being Assaulted on the DC Metro?
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Mainstreaming Terrorism to Sell Donuts
Fri, May 23, 2008 at 8:43:06 am PDT
I didn’t believe this story when people first started emailing about it; but sure enough, it’s true. Dunkin Donuts, the venerable old fried dough seller, is the latest American firm to casually promote the symbol of Palestinian terrorism and the intifada, the kaffiyeh, via Rachael Ray: Dunkin’ Breakfast Choices. Here’s an ...
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Stupidest Politician of the Day
Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:35:26 pm PDT
What do Rep. Maxine Waters (Moonbat - CA) and Hugo Chavez (Dictator - VE) have in common? No, not just the monumental stupidity. Video: Maxine Waters threatens to nationalize America’s oil industry.
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McCain Throws Hagee and Parsley Under The Bus
Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:51:25 pm PDT
It wasn’t hard to see this coming: McCain rejects pastor’s endorsement. STOCKTON, Calif. - Republican John McCain on Thursday rejected endorsements from two influential but controversial televangelists, saying there is no place for their incendiary criticisms of other faiths. McCain rejected the months-old endorsement of Texas preacher John Hagee after an ...
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Tech Note: New Comment Reporting Features
Thu, May 22, 2008 at 6:13:15 pm PDT
To help us keep track of what’s going on in our comments, tonight we have some new features in our “report” function. The first thing you’ll notice is that there’s no longer a text link labeled “report” in the top line of each comment. Instead, there’s an icon that’s supposed to ...
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Thursday Evening Ocean
Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:47:11 pm PDT
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Thursday Afternoon Open
Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:06:37 pm PDT
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The Beam in Howard Kurtz's Eye
Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:51:39 am PDT
In an article about Ted Kennedy, the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz suddenly lashes out at Michelle Malkin for comments posted at her blog: Howard Kurtz - A Day of Sadness. (A digression: Michelle Malkin is among those conservatives asking readers to put aside political differences and pray for Kennedy and ...
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Nail Bomb Attack at British Restaurant
Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:28:41 am PDT
Man injured after TWO ‘nail bombs’ are found in busy city centre restaurant. A city centre was evacuated today after two bombs were found - at least one of which exploded - at a busy lunchtime cafe. A man, who is believed to have set off the explosive device, was injured ...
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Breaking: Celebrity Not Nuts
Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:16:29 am PDT
Is this the end of the innocence? Eagles Star Henley Pays Tribute To McCain. U.S. presidential hopeful John McCain has picked up an odd endorsement as he prepares to battle either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama - from Eagles star Don Henley. While many celebrities are flocking to support the Democrats, ...
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Preacher Wars: ABC Plays Gotcha
Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:05:50 am PDT
Here comes the ABC News counterattack against John McCain, to even the score for Rev. Jeremiah Wright: McCain Pastor: Islam Is a ‘Conspiracy of Spiritual Evil’. Despite his call for the U.S. to win the “hearts and minds of the Islamic world,” Sen. John McCain recruited the support of an ...
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AP Notices a Flaw in the Messiah
Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:10:42 am PDT
Barack Obama’s ad hoc, make-it-up-as-we-go foreign policy is so pathetic that even the Associated Press is beginning to notice: Obama’s outreach to US foes is questionable.
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Jimmy Carter's Peace Partners Attack Israel Again
Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:10:01 am PDT
This time it was a four-ton truck bomb, stopped by vigilant security guards before it could cross the Gaza border: Palestinian truck bomber attacks border crossing. GAZA (Reuters) - A truck laden with four tonnes of explosives blew up near an Israeli border crossing with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on ...
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Daily Kos Joe Lieberman Two-Minute Hate
Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:48:27 am PDT
Joe Lieberman is one of the few remaining anti-appeasement Democrats, so naturally Daily Kos front page writer “Hunter” is spewing venom at him: Daily Kos: Lieberman Goes The Full Zell. I have to hand it to Joe Lieberman — seldom has a man been willing to so publicly void his ...
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A Concise History of the Fauxtography Blogstorm in the 2006 Lebanon War
Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:04:03 pm PDT
A great piece by Stephen D. Cooper: A Concise History of the Fauxtography Blogstorm in the 2006 Lebanon War - American Communication Journal.
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Global Terrorism in Sharp Decline
Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:59:17 pm PDT
As the Democratic Party continues to hammer away at their message and insist that the Bush administration’s policies “have not made us safer,” here’s news that directly contradicts their defeatism: Iraq figures distort terrorism statistics: study. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A study released on Wednesday reports a decline in fatal ...
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Eurofascists Jockeying for Legitimacy
Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:11:02 pm PDT
Following the collapse last year of the crypto-fascist European Parliament group called Identity Tradition Sovereignty (ITS), the British National Party’s Neanderthal leader Nick Griffin is reaching out to the Belgian Vlaams Belang, the French National Front, and the Austrian Freedom Party: Disquiet in the BNP over a strange invitation. Some ...
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Wednesday Evening Open
Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:07:38 pm PDT
I got no kick against modern jazz Unless they try to play it too darn fast They change the beauty of the melody Until it sounds just like a symphony — Chuck Berry
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Wikipedia Removes USSR Anthem Info from 'Decemberists' Page
Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:23:21 pm PDT
You have got to be kidding. Earlier today I linked to the Wikipedia page about the band The Decemberists, to point out that in addition to warming up for Barack Obama in Oregon, the band is known for using the National Anthem of the Soviet Union as an introduction to their ...
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Gadget Watch: IPhone 3G on the Way
Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:22:28 pm PDT
Looks like the long-awaited iPhone 3G is coming early next month: iPhone 2.0 Worldwide Launch on June 9th. When I say “long-awaited,” I’m speaking about myself. The only reason I haven’t already acquired one of these tin cans is because the current version doesn’t support the faster 3G network. ...
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About That Huge Obama Rally in Oregon...
Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:30:22 am PDT
You know that huge crowd that turned out for Obama in Oregon? What many media reports forgot to mention: Obama was immediately preceded by a free concert by a very popular band. That band, The Decemberists, is known for using the National Anthem of the Soviet Union as an introduction at ...
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Pat Buchanan Defends Hitler's Invasion of Poland
Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:29:41 am PDT
Last week we noted the bizarre arguments of Seattle Times editorial writer Bruce Ramsey, who tried so hard to defend Barack Obama against President Bush’s “appeasement” speech that he actually ended up defending Hitler for annexing Austria. His exact words were: “What Hitler was demanding was not unreasonable.” If you think ...
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Racist Ranting Moonbats Verbally Attacking Uniformed Soldiers in DC
Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:56:46 am PDT
Michael Yon has a copy of a letter to military personnel from the Department of Transportation, warning about incidents in which soldiers in uniform have been verbally assaulted by crazy ranting moonbats while riding the Washington DC Metro. Washington D.C. Dept of Transportation Federal Transit Administration sends: Recently, there have been local ...
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Class Acts All Around
Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:42:42 am PDT
As expected, Media Matters went hunting for some right-wing ranting about Senator Ted Kennedy, and the best they could come up with was Michael Savage—who, right on cue, gave them exactly what they were looking for: Media Matters - Michael Savage plays Dead Kennedys song ‘in some respect for’ Sen. ...
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Israel and Syria Talking Through Turkey
Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:16:12 am PDT
Is Ehud Olmert getting ready to hand over the Golan Heights to Syria? Israel says it is holding peace talks with Syria. JERUSALEM - Israel and Syria on Wednesday said they were holding indirect peace talks through Turkish mediators — the first official confirmation of contacts between the longtime enemies. In ...
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Al-Dura Fraud: France2's Suit Dismissed
Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:00:48 am PDT
Good news from Paris, where the suit against whistleblower Philip Karsenty by France2 television (over the Mohammed al-Dura fraud) has been dismissed.
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ABC News: Evolving Nuance!
Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:20:54 am PDT
Yes, the all-important concept of nuance has returned to American politics: Obama’s Answer on Rogue Nations Evolves. The Obama campaign is now offering a more nuanced approach that would not necessarily include a presidential meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — and that stresses diplomatic work that would take place ...
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Hizballah Has Veto Power Over Lebanese Government
Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:09:01 am PDT
Another victory for the terrorist gang Hizballah, who will now have veto power over any Lebanese government decision: Lebanon’s feuding factions reach agreement. BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanon’s feuding factions reached a breakthrough deal Wednesday that ends the country’s 18-month political stalemate, but also gives the militant Hezbollah group and its ...
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Wednesday Early Morning Open
Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:12:48 am PDT
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Obama Speaks in Iowa
Tue, May 20, 2008 at 7:13:19 pm PDT
An open thread for Barack Obama’s victory speech in Des Moines, Iowa...
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Tuesday Night Video: Vintage Keith Jarrett
Tue, May 20, 2008 at 6:54:20 pm PDT
I once had a girlfriend who heard me listening to this Keith Jarrett piece (from [Amazon Link]), and said, “Eeeewww! You like that?” Well, yeah, I do. [Video]
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Clinton Crushes Obama in Kentucky
Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:16:35 pm PDT
Fox News is reporting the results: 64% Clinton to 32% Obama. She’s speaking now, and here’s a thread for this crazy exciting occasion... UPDATE at 5/20/08 5:31:14 pm: Her margin is increasing as more results come in: now 65% Clinton to 31% Obama. UPDATE at 5/20/08 5:58:19 pm: Now at 66% Clinton, 30% Obama. ...
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Time to Break Out the Cluebat for the New York Times
Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:43:02 pm PDT
Well, at the New York Times “blog” The Lede, Mike Nizza has now added a link to LGF in his post about the Koran-shooting incident, after first mistaking another blog for mine: Reactions: Defusing a Koran Shooting in Iraq - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog. ...
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Zomblog: Moonbats Hatin' John Yoo
Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:07:51 pm PDT
At Zomblog, a photo essay on the hate fest for law professor John Yoo at UC Berkeley: Anti-John Yoo protest at Boalt Hall law school graduation. It’s a convergence of the hysterical “torture!” ninnies and the 9/11 Troofers.
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Tech Note: Unusual Robot Surge Detected
Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:25:19 pm PDT
All day I’ve been watching the online visitor count suddenly jump way up, but without the referrals that would indicate a link from a high volume site. It’s happened four or five times, and the cause in each case has been a web crawler trying to load every page at ...
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Obama Delegate from Washington: Former Gitmo Muslim Chaplain Yee
Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:37:08 pm PDT
In loony left nexus Olympia, Washington, Democrat precinct representatives have now elected as a delegate for Barack Obama former Gitmo Muslim chaplain James Yee. OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A former Army chaplain at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who was cleared of spy accusations will be a delegate to the Democratic National ...
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Hamas TV: Bush is Dracula, a Vampire
Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:19:56 pm PDT
My favorite part of this deranged little hate spew by Hamas “Minister of Culture (!)” and Jimmy Carter negotiating partner Atallah Abu Al-Subh is when he flips over a sheet of paper like a Western newscaster. Is he actually reading something that he wrote in advance? Probably. From Hamas’ Al Aqsa TV, ...
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Tuesday Afternoon Open
Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:06:58 pm PDT
That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break. — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Breaking: Ted Kennedy Diagnosed with Brain Tumor
Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:23:13 am PDT
The cause of Senator Ted Kennedy’s seizure has been announced: a malignant tumor in the left parietal lobe of his brain.
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New York Times Blog Blooper of the Day
Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:13:01 am PDT
At New York Times “blog” The Lede, Mike Nizza has a post about blogosphere reactions to the Koran-shooting kerfuffle: Reactions: Defusing a Koran Shooting in Iraq - The Lede - New York Times Blog. Nizza apparently went hunting for some right-wing ranting, and posted this: ...even a gun-rights advocate who railed ...
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Down the Memory Hole with Daily Kos
Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:16:49 am PDT
It took them an entire day to get around to it, but there goes another hateful, ugly post down the memory hole at Daily Kos: Daily Kos: The NEW IMPROVED Southern Strategy. Here’s what they’re trying to hide. Meanwhile, another post that’s actually even worse has remained at Daily Kos for an ...
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Islamic School Officials Attack News Crew
Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:04:49 am PDT
Islamic school officials in Minnesota attack a news crew. In an attempt to report about the new findings from the Department of Education Monday, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS went to Tarik ibn Zayad Academy in Inver Grove Heights. While on school grounds, our crew was attacked by school officials. Our photographer was ...
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Bush Did Not Apologize for Koran-Shooting, Soldier is Not Being Tried
Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:34:58 am PDT
Since the media are doing their best to inflame all sides over this Koran-shooting incident, please note that contrary to dozens of wire stories, President Bush “expressed deep concern” to Iraq PM al-Maliki, but he did not apologize. And the soldier responsible is not going to be put on trial. White ...
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Urban Outfitters Glorifies Terrorism
Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:23:09 am PDT
The clothing chain Urban Outfitters has been featured before at LGF, when they began selling the Palestinian kaffiyeh as a hip, stylish accessory, but this time they’ve stepped way over the line — with an openly anti-Israel T-shirt that glorifies Palestinian terrorism and child abuse. This is really sick. UrbanOutfitters.com - ...
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LGF-Haters Say What?
Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:03:00 pm PDT
More principled dissent from the idiot left: Digg - Why Little Green Footballs Sucks — ‘Frances Loves Hamas’.
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Oh Mama, I Got the Microsoft Upgrade Blues Again
Mon, May 19, 2008 at 7:08:36 pm PDT
If Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 2 is working well for you, you may want to think twice before doing the SP3 “upgrade:” Users Report More Trouble With Windows XP SP3.
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France Has 'Informal Contact' with Hamas
Mon, May 19, 2008 at 6:15:03 pm PDT
France says it’s had informal contacts with Hamas. Are you surprised?
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Obama Waffle Watch
Mon, May 19, 2008 at 5:39:00 pm PDT
It’s illuminating to compare the statement on diplomacy with Iran that’s been on Barack Obama’s campaign web site for months... Diplomacy: Obama is the only major candidate who supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions. Now is the time to pressure Iran directly to change their troubling behavior. ...
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Google Brushes off Lieberman's Request to Remove Terrorist Content
Mon, May 19, 2008 at 5:18:05 pm PDT
Senator Joe Lieberman sent a letter to Google/YouTube asking them to remove the video content that’s been posted at YouTube by terrorist groups and their supporters, and Google told Lieberman to take a hike. It’s no joke; this kind of highly disturbing radical Islamic content is easy to find all over ...
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Monday Afternoon Open
Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:56:50 pm PDT
A journey of a thousand miles begins with an open thread...
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Daily Kos: The New Improved Southern Strategy
Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:25:14 am PDT
As Barack Obama bashes the Tennessee GOP as “low class” for criticizing his wife, the Daily Kos Kidz show Tennessee what “class” really means. Daily Kos: The NEW IMPROVED Southern Strategy. So you can appreciate all the details in this Photoshop masterpiece, here’s the full sized image: UPDATE at 5/19/08 11:40:51 am: On a ...
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No Porn in Gaza
Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:08:39 am PDT
If anything will get the people (read: the men) of Gaza to turn against Hamas, this might be it: Hamas bans pornographic websites in Gaza Strip. GAZA (Reuters) - Islamist group Hamas has told the main Palestinian telecoms company to block access to pornographic Internet sites in the Gaza Strip, ...
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Obama: Iran Threat is 'Tiny' and It's George Bush's Fault
Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:19:37 am PDT
Anyone watching Barack Obama making ludicrous ahistorical comparisons between Iran and the Soviet Union, to argue that the threat from Iran is “tiny”—and that George Bush’s policies are to blame for this tiny threat? They’re broadcasting Barack’s latest crazy exciting speech on Fox. Here’s an open thread to discuss it...
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UC Irvine Muslim Student Union: 'The State of Israel's Got to Go'
Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:03:19 am PDT
At Reut Cohen’s blog, photos and video of thuggish, threatening behavior by Muslim students at an openly antisemitic terror-supporting hate festival at UC Irvine, as university officials stand by and do nothing: reutrcohen.blogspot.com: Welcome to Irvinistan. [Video]
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American Al Qaeda Traitor Missing
Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:38:19 am PDT
What’s become of Adam G.?
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Thin-Skinned Candidate Says What? - Update: Tenn. GOP is 'Low Class'
Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:47:19 am PDT
Barack Obama is becoming known as the snapping poodle of the 2008 election, snarling and lashing out and whining about poor treatment as he runs for the most powerful position in the world: Obama tells Tenn.’s GOP: ‘Lay off my wife’. WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat Barack Obama has a message ...
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Monday Early Morning Open
Mon, May 19, 2008 at 3:22:07 am PDT
We are oft to blame in this, ‘Tis too much proved, that with devotion’s visage And pious action we do sugar o’er The devil himself. — William Shakespeare
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Barack Recognizes an Enemy
Sun, May 18, 2008 at 6:54:58 pm PDT
Even if Barack Obama is elected, we know there’s one enemy he’ll never appease: Fox News. LEXINGTON, Ky. — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, facing a likely defeat in next Tuesday’s primary election, won’t travel to Kentucky before the voting, but said he hopes to have much more time to ...
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AP: Bush 'Lectures' Arab Leaders on Need Not to Oppress Women, Kill Infidels
Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:54:09 pm PDT
The media are almost universally giving it a negative spin, but President Bush’s speech to the World Economic Forum in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm El-Sheik, with representatives from many Arab nations present, was pretty extraordinary: President Bush Attends World Economic Forum. This section jumped out at me: There are ...
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Sunday Night Video: Tom Waits
Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:31:30 pm PDT
I’ve always thought this is one of Tom Waits’ best songs, and the video’s pretty good too. It’s about heartache, and holding on. [Video]
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Blair's View From the Top
Sun, May 18, 2008 at 4:42:44 pm PDT
So what is the British government, or the world for that matter, getting out of this cushy sinecure for Tony Blair? There are only 86 bedrooms at the American Colony Hotel and ten of them – more than an entire floor – have been booked indefinitely by Tony Blair to ...
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Firefox 3 Near-Final Version Released
Sun, May 18, 2008 at 4:19:19 pm PDT
Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is out of the gate; this is supposed to be the version between beta and final release: Firefox web browser | International versions: Get Firefox in your language. Firebug (the Javascript debugger) still doesn’t work with this, so if you rely on that extension as much ...
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McCain's Advice on SNL
Sun, May 18, 2008 at 3:54:03 pm PDT
John McCain’s pretty good at comedy! Who knew?
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Seattle Times Editor Edits 'Hitler Not Unreasonable' Post
Sun, May 18, 2008 at 2:39:11 pm PDT
Seattle Times editorial writer Bruce Ramsey, the mind behind that ludicrous “blog” piece saying, “Hitler’s demands were not unreasonable,” has been doing a little on-the-sly editing: Bush, and His Use of ‘Appeasement’ | Seattle Times Newspaper Blog. Ramsey got smacked around pretty badly in the comments for his piece, and rarely ...
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Dutchman Arrested for Aggravated Cartoonery
Sun, May 18, 2008 at 2:17:44 pm PDT
In the Netherlands, cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot (a pseudonym) has been arrested (and released a day later) for felony line drawing with intent to provoke laughter. AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, May 16 (UPI) — A Dutch cartoonist has been arrested following a lengthy investigation into allegations his work was discriminatory to other races, ...
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Al Arabiya Goes Nuts Over Koran Shooting
Sun, May 18, 2008 at 1:34:44 pm PDT
Maybe we’ll get that seethe-fest after all. Arab satellite channel Al Arabiya is really stoking the flames over this Koran-shooting incident. Here’s the English version of their article; notice the photograph and caption. The soldier is pointing his gun toward a mosque in the distance: US soldier removed from Iraq for ...
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Mudville: Hark, Another Phony Soldier Speaks
Sun, May 18, 2008 at 1:19:52 pm PDT
At Mudville Gazette: The exaggerations of Tom Harkin.
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Palms
Sun, May 18, 2008 at 1:14:42 pm PDT
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Reuters: Infidels Riddle Koran with Bullets
Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:13:39 am PDT
This would be good for a round of seething, except that senior military commanders have already sprung into action and apologized. Leaving aside the inherent absurdity of apologizing for harming a book, Reuters is doing their best to make sure the issue persists, with one of their characteristically even-handed, unbiased ...
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Metafilter Doesn't Heart LGF
Sun, May 18, 2008 at 9:09:51 am PDT
They like us, they really like us: Revolt of the Lab Rats? Or Voyeur Caught Watching? | MetaFilter. OK, I’m being sarcastic. Truth is, they really hate us. A lot. But it’s funny to read their clueless comments, completely misconstruing everything about Little Green Footballs, and spewing hatred in all directions like ...
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Pathetic Ron Paulian Jew-Hating Post of the Day - Update: It Has a 'My Obama' Page
Sun, May 18, 2008 at 8:39:21 am PDT
The Half Moon Bay Review is apparently a legitimate small community newspaper in San Mateo; they have non-crazy advertisers and articles about the City Council and high school softball. So who’s responsible for letting this Ron Paulian post insane antisemitic garbage like this? TalkAbout Topic: Jewish American Traitors Manipulate Digg On ...
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On the Coattails of a Dead Man
Sun, May 18, 2008 at 8:07:21 am PDT
Here comes another audiotape in the long-running series of posthumous releases by the world’s most talkative dead man: Islamist Websites Announces Soon-To-Be-Released Osama Bin Laden Speech. On May 18, 2008, the Islamist website Ikhlaas (www.ek-ls.org) announced that a new speech by Osama Bin Laden would be posted in the near ...
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Sunday Early Morning Open
Sun, May 18, 2008 at 2:58:03 am PDT
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all. — Rita Mae Brown
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AFP Shills for the Extreme Anti-Military Left
Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:28:10 pm PDT
Don’t even know what to say about this one except ... could the media bias possibly be more obvious? US soldier refuses to serve in ‘illegal Iraq war’. Matthis Chiroux is the kind of young American US military recruiters love. “I was from a poor, white family from the south, and ...
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Crybabies Say What?
Sat, May 17, 2008 at 5:52:34 pm PDT
I’m a little amazed that there are still Obama Democrats out there on all the talk shows today, whining and spinning and faux-seething about the President’s “appeasement” remarks in Israel. They want to look tough to the petulant Nutroots base, to the Kos Kids and the DUmmies and the Olberthings. ...
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Update: Kennedy Did Not Have a Stroke
Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:58:22 pm PDT
Ted Kennedy apparently did not have a stroke; it was a seizure of some kind: Spokesperson Says It Does Not Appear 76-Year-Old Suffered Stroke - CBS News. The comments section for this CBS News article is a real cesspool.
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Ingraham vs. Olbermann
Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:39:21 pm PDT
Laura Ingraham Dismantles Keith Olbermann. Crunchy audio clips.
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Fauxtography in Texas
Sat, May 17, 2008 at 2:21:05 pm PDT
Looks like someone got a little ... uh ... over-zealous with Photoshop in a yearbook for McKinney High School in Texas: Students’ photos altered in McKinney yearbook. Imagine posing for a yearbook photo and ending up with someone else’s body – or looking nude – in the final product. Yearbook photos ...
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Saturday Afternoon Open
Sat, May 17, 2008 at 1:42:41 pm PDT
My studies in speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese. — Benjamin DeCasseres
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UN to Investigate Racism Against Barack Obama
Sat, May 17, 2008 at 9:16:56 am PDT
Coming to the rescue of Barack Obama—the United Nations “Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,” to expose the bigotry and racism of the United States: U.N. racism investigator to visit U.S. from Monday. GENEVA (Reuters) - A special U.N. human rights investigator will ...
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Breaking: Ted Kennedy Rushed to Hospital
Sat, May 17, 2008 at 8:36:27 am PDT
The headline at CNN.com: Sen. Ted Kennedy is rushed to a hospital in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a Democratic source tells CNN
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Spiegel Wakes Up, Sees Islamic Hate Speech, Rolls Over, Goes Back to Sleep
Sat, May 17, 2008 at 8:19:45 am PDT
Talk about clueless. Spiegel Online has an article about the antisemitic hate speech that is overwhelmingly common in the Islamic world; apparently they just noticed it: ’Wipe Out the Jews’ : Anti-Semitic Hate Speech in the Name of Islam. Though most Muslims reject Islamism and its propaganda, anti-Semitic messages from ...
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Friday Overnight Thread
Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:02:56 pm PDT
An open thread for nocturnal reptiles...
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We Got Mail!
Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:02:14 pm PDT
Following a series of stupid and insulting comments in the Carnegie Mellon thread by a college kid at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Stinky Beaumont whipped out the banning stick and took away its account. Uh oh. College know-it-all didn’t like that. Not one bit. So it used its high-powered Mensa ...
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Chavez: Sorry About That 'Hitler' Thing
Fri, May 16, 2008 at 6:27:38 pm PDT
Here’s another of Barack Obama’s negotiating partners, apologizing to German Chancellor Angela Merkel for calling her a “descendant of Hitler:” Chavez apologizes to Merkel over Hitler remarks. And Merkel just took it. LIMA (Reuters) - Days after calling German Chancellor Angela Merkel a political descendant of Adolf Hitler, Venezuelan President Hugo ...
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Friday Night Video: Tommy Emmanuel
Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:36:02 pm PDT
Tommy Emmanuel is some kind of freak of nature. [Video]
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Moore Promises New America-Hating Film
Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:04:47 pm PDT
Michael “Two Dinners” Moore is planning a sequel to his despicable Fahrenheit 9/11, and he’s promising one of the most anti-American movies ever made. He’s hyping it in France right now. He’s big in France. Actually, he’s just ... big. CANNES, France (Reuters) - Oscar-winning documentary maker Michael Moore, who this ...
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Huckabee's Idiotic NRA 'Joke'
Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:57:01 pm PDT
Possibly the stupidest, most tone-deaf remark ever made by a politician (I know, it’s a crowded field), as Mike Huckabee makes a joke about someone pointing a gun at Barack Obama—in a speech to the NRA: “Somebody aimed a gun at him...”
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McCain Rips Obama: 'Reckless'
Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:48:43 pm PDT
John McCain is now on Fox News, speaking to NRA, and is tearing Barack Obama a new foreign policy clue. I have some news for Senator Obama: talking, not even with soaring rhetoric, (unconditional)... in unconditional meetings with a man who calls Israel a “stinking corpse,” and arms terrorists who ...
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Seattle Times Editor: 'Hitler's Demands Were Not Unreasonable'
Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:14:14 pm PDT
Seattle Times editorial writer Bruce Ramsey, in an effort to defend Barack Obama against President Bush’s “appeasement” speech, actually ends up defending Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, and the Anschluss (the annexation of Austria): Bush, and His Use of ‘Appeasement’. Democrats are rebuking President Bush for saying in his speech to ...
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Video: Hamas Hearts Obama
Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:20:37 pm PDT
I originally posted this video way back on April 1st, but with Obama’s furious two-day whine about a Bush speech that did not even mention him by name, this is a good time to re-post it. Palestinians in Gaza, clearly with the approval of Hamas (because nothing happens in Gaza without ...
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Obama: I Will Engage in Direct Talks with Iran
Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:21:15 am PDT
Barack Obama just reiterated that he will personally engage in “direct talks” with Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism, as he complained bitterly about President Bush’s speech in Israel. Obama and the Democrats are making a big mistake with this whining, crybaby approach; I hope he continues down this road. UPDATE at ...
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We're Giving Saudi Arabia Enriched Uranium, They're Giving Us the Shaft
Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:48:36 am PDT
The United States is going to supply Saudi Arabia with enriched uranium: US unveils deals with Saudi on nuclear power, oil protection. The White House said Washington and Riyadh were also to sign an agreement on nuclear cooperation that would clear the way for Saudi Arabia to receive enriched uranium ...
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Obama: 'I Have Never Said I Would Negotiate with Terrorists'
Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:31:59 am PDT
Barack Obama just said in a speech being broadcast on Fox News: “I have never said I would negotiate with terrorists.” From his official campaign web site: Diplomacy: Obama is the only major candidate who supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions. Now is the time to pressure Iran ...
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Osama Bin Dead for a Long Time
Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:03:02 am PDT
Yep, another audiotape. He’s dead, folks. Has been for a long time. Bin Laden: Palestinian cause fuels war. This propaganda is intended for the American left, who are already getting more and more open about their hatred of Israel and their desire to appease radical Islamists. It reinforces the message that ...
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CAIR Hitches Ride on Japanese Internment Demonstration
Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:53:23 am PDT
The Saudi-funded, Hamas-linked radical Islamic front group CAIR is now exploiting the WWII internment of Japanese Americans to advance their bogus “victimhood” agenda: Pilgrimage to site of WWII internment camp uniting communities. The program, titled ‘‘Continuing the Legacy,’’ particularly emphasized the striking correlation between historical injustices done to Japanese-Americans and ...
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Friday Early Morning Open
Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:10:11 am PDT
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. — Oscar Wilde
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An LGF Experiment at Carnegie Mellon?
Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:44:31 pm PDT
Anyone know what this page at Carnegie Mellon means? It’s some kind of experiment that involves comments posted at LGF, and I have a feeling it’s not friendly. Here’s a directory index. UPDATE at 5/16/08 8:40:05 am: They finally got around to closing their directory indexes; some administrator had quite a surprise this ...
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Obama: The Decider
Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:01:51 pm PDT
On April 11, 2008, Reuters reported: Obama declines to criticize Carter on Hamas. INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Friday it was not his place to criticize former President Jimmy Carter if he were to meet with Hamas, although Obama said he would not meet with ...
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Thursday Evening Open
Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:08:09 pm PDT
It’s the traditional Thursday evening thread, for a week in which the freaks are coming out of the woodwork...
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Obama's Diplomatic Partner: 'The Hidden Imam Manages All the Affairs of the World'
Thu, May 15, 2008 at 6:49:19 pm PDT
Barack Obama wants to sit down and have tea and discuss the issues (using his amazing diplo-fu) with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It’s all about hope! and change! and waffles! I hope they have plenty of extra syrup if/when they meet, because here’s the mini-Hitler himself, explaining that “the Hidden Imam manages all ...
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Pro-Al Qaeda Revisionist History from AFP
Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:16:12 pm PDT
This week, the week of Israel’s 60th anniversary, is the week when the mainstream media completely dropped its mask with an unprecedented deluge of anti-Israel propaganda that has astounded even me. And it shows no sign of letting up. Here’s a pro-Al Qaeda piece from AFP: Bin Laden to release speech ...
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Thursday Afternoon Open
Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:21:30 pm PDT
When it’s time for an open thread, there’s no stopping it...
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UC Irvine Muslim Student Union Openly Supports Hamas
Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:00:44 pm PDT
At UC Irvine, where a school investigation found “no evidence” of any antisemitism among the Islamic student groups, open support for Hamas from the Muslim Student Union: MSU-UCI: Campus Supporters of Terror Group Hamas. A photo of the mock “Israeli wall” at their Nakba hatefest: This has been going on at UC ...
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MSNBC Joins the Nakba Chorus
Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:20:44 pm PDT
Still more insanely over the top “Nakba” propaganda from the mainstream media at MSNBC, by yet another Arab writer: As Israelis celebrate, Palestinians mourn. This is how the media are almost universally spinning Israel’s 60th anniversary. It’s nauseating. JERUSALEM – Women screaming and children trying to escape a village on fire. These ...
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Thursday Afternoon Open
Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:42:38 pm PDT
God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself. — Proverb
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The Worst Reuters Article Ever
Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:07:23 pm PDT
I’m sitting with my mouth dropped open, reading what has to be the single most biased mainstream media article I have ever encountered. Reuters has completely dropped the mask, and their Arab propagandists are doing everything in their power to demonize Israel and promote the big lie of “Nakba.” Just look ...
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Crybaby Says What?
Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:19:48 pm PDT
What’s that high-pitched, furious whining sound I keep hearing? Oh, I see. It’s just Barack Obama complaining again. This time he’s throwing a tantrum about a boilerplate anti-terrorism statement by President Bush that doesn’t even mention him by name. ABC News’ Ed O’Keefe Reports: The Obama campaign is taking issue with ...
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California Legalizes Gay Marriage
Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:11:18 am PDT
In an election year, the California Supreme Court has legalized gay marriage. Hang on to your hats.
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The Protocols of the Daily Kos
Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:49:30 am PDT
Yes, it’s another ridiculously verbose anti-Israel diary at Daily Kos by “jon the antizionist jew:” Daily Kos: The Nakba at 60; Protest, Commemoration, and Solidarity. And unlike the openly antisemitic diary we noted Tuesday, the commenters are almost all approving. You won’t find a single diary or front page post at Daily ...
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CAIR's Image Makeover
Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:43:19 am PDT
Tyler Hurd is a St. Cloud State University student plagued by seizures following a childhood accident, and has a service dog who is trained to sit on him when a seizure strikes, to prevent him from hurting himself. A Muslim student at the school threatened to kill the dog. Now the Hamas-linked, ...
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Olbermann to Bush: 'Shut the Hell Up'
Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:56:27 am PDT
MSNBC should be ashamed of themselves for promoting this insane, ranting freak as some kind of legitimate commentator: Olbermann Accuses Bush of ‘Murderous Deceit,’ Should ‘Shut the Hell Up’. I guess this kind of hate speech sells advertisements. I remember when talking this way about a President of the United States ...
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Dirty Tricks and Gutter Politics
Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:42:58 am PDT
Get ready for gutter politics at its lowest, as lunatic preachers attack: The Trinity of Hell. Just so nobody thinks I’m approving this message: this guy is completely off his rocker.
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Daily Kos and Others on Jihad
Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:23:08 am PDT
Jeffrey Imm has a detailed report on the efforts to disguise and redefine the word “jihad,” taking place at the Department of Homeland Security, the National Counter Terrorism Center — and the Daily Kos. What do the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC), and the Daily ...
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Thursday Early Morning Open
Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:59:08 am PDT
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune? — Elias Canetti
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A Terrorist Group with a YouTube Channel
Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:59:19 pm PDT
At YouTube they remove anti-jihad videos at the merest whiff of protest from Muslims. But they have no qualms about hosting a channel for Harkat Ul Mujahideen, a group that is listed by the State Department as a foreign terrorist organization, with dozens of snuff films and jihad videos: YouTube - ...
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Anti-Israeli Subversion on Wikipedia
Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:51:34 pm PDT
It’s pretty obvious to any observer that Palestinian and Islamic groups are constantly trying to subvert Wikipedia entries about Israel; sometimes with big lies, sometimes with tiny revisions of history. But now Honest Reporting has researched and documented the manipulations beyond any doubt: Exposed - Anti-Israeli Subversion on Wikipedia.
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Islamic Hate Preacher Invited to Ohio School
Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:36:13 pm PDT
This one is almost unbelievable, as the Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio hosts a lecture by one of the most notorious radical Islamic preachers in the world, sponsored by Dayton’s Masjid-at-Taqwa Islamic center: Islamic Hatred in the Heartland. Khalid Yasin is one of the most notorious Islamic hate sheikhs ...
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Lebanese Government Really Is Capitulating
Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:02:09 pm PDT
I’ve seen quite a few blog posts arguing that this development is a loss for Hizballah, but I don’t see it. Hizballah comes out of this stronger, not weaker, with an illegal communications network that is reportedly capable of eavesdropping on all telephone calls in Lebanon, and their man in ...
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Farrakhan Featured on Cover of Rev. Wright's Magazine Three Times
Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:44:04 pm PDT
Tom Blumer does more research into Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s radical newsmagazine Trumpet, and discovers that only one person has appeared on the cover of the magazine as many times as Barack Obama—Louis Farrakhan. Here’s one:
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Wednesday Afternoon Open
Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:49:31 pm PDT
An open thread for the middle of the middle...
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Indonesian Antisemitism Watch
Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:34:08 am PDT
In the showcase “moderate” Islamic state of Indonesia, the speaker of parliament told an audience of Jew-haters today that Israel is committing ‘ethnic cleansing’. JAKARTA (AFP) - Israel is carrying out “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians, a top Indonesian politician said Wednesday in the lead up to celebrations and protests marking ...
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Video: Jew-Eating Rabbit Teaches Revisionist History to Hamas Kids
Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:22:31 am PDT
Hamas continues to pump evil indoctrination into the minds of children, preparing them for a life of hatred and murder, as Assud the Jew-eating rabbit learns from his “grandfather” that “Tel Aviv” is actually “Tel Al-Rabi.” (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Following is an excerpt from the Hamas Children’s show “The ...
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HuffPo: Obama Doesn't Need the Jews Anyway
Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:47:11 am PDT
Huffington Post “reporter” Sam Stein comes right out and says it: Does Obama Even Need The Jewish Vote? Does the Jewish vote really matter all that much for the Illinois Democrat? The topic, perhaps surprisingly, carries no clear consensus among some academics and analysts. There is relative consensus on three reasons ...
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Navarrette: If You Don't Like Obama, You're a Racist
Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:54:48 am PDT
At CNN, an article from Ruben Navarrette Jr. that explicitly spells it out: Not voting for Barack Obama is racism. Meanwhile, some white Americans are turning themselves inside out to come up with excuses for why they’re not supporting Obama. It seems like just yesterday that these folks were arguing ...
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Lebanese Government Capitulates to Hizballah Demands
Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:47:26 am PDT
The Lebanese government is caving in to the terrorist gang Hizballah, and war with Israel is getting closer: Lebanon set to cancel anti-Hezbollah measures. Notice the bizarre propaganda spin of this Reuters piece; this is a surrender to Hizballah’s demands, but you’d never know it from this piece by yet another ...
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Hamas Rocket Hits Shopping Center
Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:29:38 am PDT
Hamas is really asking for it. Gaza rocket hits Israeli city. JERUSALEM - A rocket fired from Gaza exploded in a shopping center in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on Wednesday, wounding at least three people and leaving two trapped under rubble, officials said. Rescue service spokesman Eli Bean said ...
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Wednesday Early Morning Open
Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:22:40 am PDT
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri
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The Skeletons of Obama
Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:58:30 pm PDT
Here’s a quick run-down of some of Barack Obama’s questionable and disturbing associations: * Rabidly anti-Israel Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi. The Obamas were regular dinner guests at Khalidi’s Hyde Park home for years. * Terrorist sympathizer Ali Abunimah, who runs the viciously anti-Israel web site Electronic Intifada. * Unrepentant Weather Underground terrorists ...
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How Badly Did Obama Lose W. Virginia?
Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:50:37 pm PDT
Barack Obama lost in every single category in West Virginia: Election Center 2008: Primary Exit Polls - Elections & Politics news from CNN.com.
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When Discredited Hacks Attack
Tue, May 13, 2008 at 6:48:53 pm PDT
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Tim Townsend has penned a thoroughly predictable hit piece for the thoroughly biased Columbia Journalism Review, whining about the poor treatment he received at the hands of anonymous internet commenters when he was exposed as a shill for the Saudi-funded radical Islamic front group calling itself ...
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Rev. Wright Magazine Featured Obama on Cover with Farrakhan
Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:41:39 pm PDT
To this day, Barack Obama continues to insist he was shocked and surprised to discover that Reverend Jeremiah Wright had bizarre racist views. Now Tom Blumer has discovered images of Wright’s radical newsmagazine Trumpet—and look who was featured on the cover of that magazine at least three times: BizzyBlog - Attention ...
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Massive Terror Attack in West India
Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:31:23 pm PDT
Police report 60 killed by bombs in western India. NEW DELHI - A series of bombs exploded across the ancient city of Jaipur on Tuesday, killing at least 60 people and transforming busy markets, a jewelry bazaar and a Hindu temple into scenes of carnage. All seven blasts were within the ...
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IPT: The Latest 'Interfaith' Leader with Terror Ties
Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:28:09 pm PDT
The Investigative Project exposes yet another ‘Interfaith’ leader with terror ties. In anticipation of the deportation proceedings of Imam Mohammad Qatanani of the Islamic Center of Passaic in New Jersey, New York Times trumpeted “Revered New Jersey Imam, Facing Deportation, Has Interfaith Support.” And indeed, the Imam has had various ...
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Rest in Peace, Irena Sendler
Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:42:22 pm PDT
One of the true heroines of our time, a woman who saved thousands of Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust, Irena Sendler has died at the age of 98. What she witnessed haunted her to the end of her life. Rest in peace, Irena. The petite woman with the black bonnet ...
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Fedora 9
Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:34:22 am PDT
If you’re a Linux lizard, version 9 of the Fedora Core was released today at the Fedora Project. Everyone in the known universe seems to be downloading it right now; I couldn’t find one mirror site working at better than about 20K/second, so I’m currently downloading the Bittorrent version. It’s ...
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WaPo: Indiana is Lousy with Racism
Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:38:44 am PDT
According to the Washington Post, Indiana is full of racists and bigots: Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause. Here’s one incident they cite to support their case: The bigotry has gone beyond words. In Vincennes, the Obama campaign office was vandalized at 2 a.m. on the eve of the primary, ...
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Obama: I Understand Why Hamas Digs Me
Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:01:15 am PDT
After first denying that Hamas supports him and attacking John McCain for bringing it up, Barack Obama now says he understands why Hamas supports him. While maintaining an ironclad commitment to Israel’s security, Barack Obama says he understood why a top Hamas adviser voiced support for his presidential bid. “It’s conceivable ...
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The Protocols of the Daily Kos
Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:17:04 am PDT
How low can Daily Kos go? Perhaps the most sickening, hate-filled antisemitic diary ever at Daily Kos: Daily Kos: Eulogy before the Inevitability of Self-Destruction: The Decline and Death of Israel. Every obsessive antisemitic canard known to man is represented in this piece; the USS Liberty, “Zionist cancer,” “Zionist tentacles,” “the ...
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Tuesday Early Morning Open
Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:17:00 am PDT
When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Paleozoic time, And side by side on the ebbing tide We sprawled through the ooze and slime, Or skittered with many a caudal flip Through the depths of the Cambrian fen, My heart was rife with the joy of life, For I loved you even ...
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State Department Outreach to Terror Groups
Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:57:56 pm PDT
Here’s one of those stories that might make you think you’re having a waking nightmare: State Department’s Jihadist Exchange Program. State Department diplomats are taking full advantage of their new rules prohibiting the use of “jihad,” “jihadist,” and “mujahedeen” to describe Islamic extremists and terrorists, which they apparently have taken ...
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Obama: Israel is 'A Constant Sore'
Mon, May 12, 2008 at 5:20:28 pm PDT
In an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg for The Atlantic, Barack Obama presents himself as the best friend Israel ever had. Then he proceeds to call Israel a “constant sore” that “infects all of our foreign policy:” Obama on Zionism and Hamas. JG: Do you think that Israel is a drag on ...
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Tech Note: Safely Going Live with New Code
Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:20:02 pm PDT
Tonight's geeked out post has to do with the difficulty of safely uploading changed web application files. Pretty sexy, huh? When I make changes to one of the PHP scripts that drive the LGF Blog Engine, the new file has to be uploaded to the LGF web server, of course. The ...
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Zombie: Nakba-60 Palestinian Festival
Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:17:59 pm PDT
Jew-haters, terrorist sympathizers, Communists, and useful idiots called for Israel to be wiped out at the Nakba-60 Palestinian Festival in San Francisco. Zombie was lurking.
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Daily Kos on Jenna Bush Wedding
Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:42:34 pm PDT
You are not going to believe this Daily Kos diary. Daily Kos: Bush Wedding Photos! One of the sickest Daily Kos articles yet, and that’s saying something.
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Midday Open Thread
Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:44:40 pm PDT
The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. — Raymond Chandler
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Video: The Worshipping of the Giant Puppets
Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:54:00 am PDT
A progressive Catholic group named “Call to Action” (which may actually be an Episcopalian black ops unit) gives us our creepy-groovy giant puppet video of the day. [Video] (Hat tips: Midwest Conservative Journal and Age of Hooper.)
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A Moonbat Mother's Day
Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:32:58 am PDT
This Ain’t Hell has photos and video from the pathetic Code Pink Mother’s Day moronic convergence in Washington DC: This ain’t Hell, but you can see it from here: Mothers’ Day Peace-nik (now with IVAW). With each silly demonstration the numbers dwindle further; this one had about 30 highly motivated moonbats. ...
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NYT Presents Extremist As 'Moderate'
Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:27:21 am PDT
In their quest to find showcase “moderate Muslims,” the New York Times strikes out again with an article that completely glosses over the radical opinions of their latest poster boy: Jihad Watch: New York Times presents Islamic supremacist as moderate non-zealot.
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NY Times Admits Obama's Muslim Birth
Mon, May 12, 2008 at 7:50:42 am PDT
After relentlessly labeling anyone who brings up the issue of Barack Obama’s Muslim origins as a bigot, a racist, or a lunatic, suddenly this morning the New York Times publishes an op-ed that actually admits Obama was born a Muslim—and that it might cause serious problems in an Obama presidency: ...
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Saudi Money for Harvard and Jimmy Carter
Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:09:33 pm PDT
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, whose $10 million contribution was turned down by Rudy Giuliani in the days after the 9/11 attacks, is showering American colleges and political institutions (like the Jimmy Carter Center for Peace and the James Baker Institute) with multi-million dollar donations: Harvard Islamic Studies Program Opened. CAMBRIDGE, ...
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Another 3600 Words from Fjordman
Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:46:27 pm PDT
If you’d like to read another incredibly verbose attack by Fjordman that never deals with the basic issues we have with each other, here you go: To the Readers of Little Green Footballs. (He’s “going over my head,” making a direct appeal to the lizard army, in a futile attempt to ...
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We Got to Boogie
Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:09:34 pm PDT
A little Sunday night boogie by Aussie guitar punisher Tommy Emmanuel. [Video]
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Finkelstein in His Element at UC Irvine
Sun, May 11, 2008 at 2:02:03 pm PDT
Jonathan Constantine has video of Norman Finkelstein at UC Irvine’s latest antisemitic hatefest (sponsored by Muslim student groups who cheer his every pronouncement in the clip): Finkelstein Angered By Hardball Question, Calls for Military Destruction of Israel - CAMPUS WATCH, Part of the Red County Network.
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Sunday Afternoon Open
Sun, May 11, 2008 at 1:25:55 pm PDT
I’m fixing a few minor bugs in the LGF Blog Engine code, and here’s an open thread in which to test a few things...
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Arab League 'Condemns' Hizballah
Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:34:04 am PDT
The Arab League has condemned Hizballah for using weapons. Because they weren’t using those weapons to kill Jews. The Arab League condemned Hizbullah for using its weapons within Lebanese territory. The League’s foreign ministers who gathered in Cairo, called for an immediate ceasefire.
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Happy Mom's Day
Sun, May 11, 2008 at 9:54:11 am PDT
Be good to your mother. You only get one. — Stinky Beaumont
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Palestinian Work Accident Watch
Sun, May 11, 2008 at 9:44:44 am PDT
They’re terrorists, and they were carrying explosives meant to kill Israelis, but of course the Associated Press calls them “militants” and tells us they were on a “holy mission:” Hamas militant killed in Gaza explosion. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A member of the militant group Hamas has been killed ...
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Time Magazine Hearts Al-Sadr
Sun, May 11, 2008 at 9:32:51 am PDT
The Mahdi Army of Muqtada Al-Sadr has surrendered and laid down their arms. TIME Magazine calls this a victory for Al-Sadr: Al-Sadr Wins Another Round.
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Another Antisemite at the Washington Post
Sun, May 11, 2008 at 8:57:05 am PDT
America’s most disgusting terrorist-hugging former president is published by America’s most disgusting Islamist mouthpiece, “On Faith,” with a truly vile little piece: On Faith: Guest Voices: Presidents Should Not Be Liars. I do not think the President of the United States should be a liar, and believe that the overwhelming ...
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Sunday Early Morning Open
Sun, May 11, 2008 at 3:09:19 am PDT
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. — George Washington
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Once Upon the Internet
Sat, May 10, 2008 at 6:29:20 pm PDT
Did you know that lizards have evolved to write poetry? From LGF reader Winslow: Who Knows? ’Twas once upon the internet I chanced upon an argument; A blog appeared to splinter into internecine wars. ’Twas all precipitated by a movie dedicated to Portraying Darwinism as a truth-suppressing force. A thousand comments did ...
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And Now, the Islamophobia Observatory
Sat, May 10, 2008 at 6:08:43 pm PDT
Who says Islamic nations aren’t coming up with ground-breaking, innovative research? The 57 nations of the Organization of the Islamic Conference are opening a new observatory! No, not that kind of observatory, silly. This kind. Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has stated that a project called the Islamophobia ...
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Jordanian Kills Pregnant Sister to 'Cleanse Family Honor'
Sat, May 10, 2008 at 6:00:45 pm PDT
Sickening. And this depraved murderer will probably get (at most) a slap on the wrist: Khaleej Times Online - Jordan police question family for ‘honour killing’. AMMAN - The Jordanian authorities are questioning a 22-year- old man, who allegedly killed his pregnant married sister for reasons related to family honour, ...
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Saturday Afternoon Open
Sat, May 10, 2008 at 4:05:04 pm PDT
I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I’ll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool. — William Shakespeare
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Q: What Did Obama Know About Rev. Wright? A: Everything.
Sat, May 10, 2008 at 1:03:54 pm PDT
Stanley Kurtz has a devastating piece in the Weekly Standard, analyzing a year’s worth of the news magazine published by Reverend Jeremiah Wright: Jeremiah Wright’s ‘Trumpet’. To the question of the moment—What did Barack Obama know and when did he know it?—I answer, Obama knew everything, and he’s known it ...
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Obama Changes His 'Unconditional' Position - Update: Video Added
Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:02:40 pm PDT
In yet another New York Times advocacy piece for Barack Obama, we discover that the Obama campaign is trying to rewrite history again. Susan E. Rice, a former State Department and National Security Council official who is a foreign policy adviser to the Democratic candidate, said that “for political purposes, ...
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Saturday Morning Papaya
Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:11:31 am PDT
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Christian Science Monitor Shills for 'Nakba'
Sat, May 10, 2008 at 9:04:12 am PDT
The amount of anti-Israel propaganda being churned out by mainstream media as Israel celebrates her 60th anniversary is absolutely appalling. There is one story after another on the wires about how much the Palestinians suffered when Israel was born, and not a single one of them provides the necessary context ...
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Friday Night Open
Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:16:17 pm PDT
An open thread for the lizards of the night...
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And Now for Some Finger Picking
Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:20:29 pm PDT
Here’s Andy McKee with Ebon Coast from his album [Amazon Link]. [Video]
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McCain on O'Reilly 2
Fri, May 9, 2008 at 5:20:39 pm PDT
The second part of Bill O’Reilly’s interview with John McCain is airing shortly; last night’s first installment wasn’t exactly our most popular political thread ever, so why not double down?
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Mosque Refuses to Bury Cop Killer
Fri, May 9, 2008 at 3:15:09 pm PDT
This is interesting; a mosque where Philadelphia cop killer Howard Cain might have developed that “prayer bump” on his forehead (by grinding it into the ground five times a day—it’s considered a mark of devotion) is now refusing to give him a funeral. Good for them. The leadership of the Germantown ...
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Obama Adviser Held Talks with Hamas
Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:35:23 pm PDT
Another Obama adviser quietly tossed under the bus for holding talks with Hamas. Reached for comment, Barack Obama said, “Can’t I just eat my waffle?”
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Citizens Trapped by Clashes in Beirut
Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:09:48 pm PDT
A first person account from Beirut by Charles Chuman: Pajamas Media: Beirut Clashes Trap Citizens.
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Mark Steyn vs. Muslim Critics
Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:07:18 pm PDT
Several people emailed to recommend this video of Mark Steyn confronting some of his Islamist critics; I couldn’t get it to play, but maybe you’ll have better luck: The Agenda - Video - May 6: What is Wrong with Mark Steyn’s View of the World?
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False Alarm: Not Al-Masri
Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:34:21 am PDT
I wrote yesterday that it wasn’t confirmed, and today the military announced that it was indeed a false alarm: US says Qaeda chief in Iraq not captured. BAGHDAD (AFP) - The US military denied on Friday that Al-Qaeda in Iraq chief Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, who carries a US bounty of ...
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Jimmy Carter: Hamas PR Agent
Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:56:24 am PDT
Here’s Jimmy Carter shilling for Hamas again, with an article in the Guardian that lets his mask slip a little more than usual: Jimmy Carter: A human rights crime. The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being ...
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AP Discovers Terrorism
Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:14:24 am PDT
How do you get the Associated Press to use the word “terrorism” in an article without scare quotes? Simple. Just distort the meaning of the word so badly that it’s unrecognizable. Bam! No scare quotes! Vietnam to try American for terrorism. HANOI, Vietnam - A Vietnamese-American and two Vietnamese nationals will ...
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Obama's Negotiating Partner in Peace: Israel is a 'Stinking Corpse'
Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:08:14 am PDT
Maybe when Barack Obama sits down for tea with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran, he can ask the mini-dictator about this little faux pas: Ahmadinejad: Israel is a ‘stinking corpse’ doomed to disappear. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday called Israel a “stinking corpse” which is doomed to disappear, as the ...
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Video: Islam Will Conquer Rome and Spain, America Will End
Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:00:44 am PDT
Here’s former Jordanian “minister of religious endowment” Sheik Ali Al-Faqir appearing on Al Aqsa TV May 2, 2008, with an Islamic supremacist rant about taking over the world. This isn’t happening on some street corner in Amman. It’s being broadcast to millions of people on Arab television. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] ...
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Hizballah Takes Over Beirut
Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:28:44 am PDT
The media don’t want to use the words “civil war,” but there’s very little doubt that Lebanon is in the midst of one: Hezbollah imposes control on Beirut. BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah group took control of the Muslim half of Beirut on Friday, tightening its grip on the ...
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Friday Early Morning Open
Fri, May 9, 2008 at 3:24:43 am PDT
The last thing one knows is what to put first. — Pascal
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Exposing the Distortions in 'Expelled'
Thu, May 8, 2008 at 6:51:24 pm PDT
Six Things in Expelled That Ben Stein Doesn’t Want You to Know... In the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, narrator Ben Stein poses as a “rebel” willing to stand up to the scientific establishment in defense of freedom and honest, open discussion of controversial ideas like intelligent design (ID). But ...
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The Door Closes
Thu, May 8, 2008 at 6:45:00 pm PDT
Well, I left registration open all day, 8+ hours, but since I didn’t announce it there are only 51 hatchlings on the delousing deck tonight. Welcome, hatchlings, and fear my unblinking eye. Unannounced openings evidently result in fewer hatchlings.
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McCain on O'Reilly
Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:04:29 pm PDT
Here’s a thread to discuss John McCain’s appearance on the Bill O’Reilly show...
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Got a Big Al Qaeda Fish in Iraq
Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:49:49 pm PDT
Not completely confirmed but looking good: Leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq Arrested in Mosul. BAGHDAD — The leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was arrested in the northern city of Mosul, the Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday. Spokesman Mohammed al-Askari said the arrest of al-Masri, also known ...
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C and F: The New Creationism
Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:35:37 pm PDT
Allen Forkum of the much-missed cartooning duo Cox & Forkum emailed to point out that he and John did a cartoon related to a subject we’ve been discussing a little bit recently at LGF.
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Civil War in Lebanon?
Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:35:31 am PDT
If it isn’t civil war yet, it’s pretty close, as Hizballah flexes its muscles in a show of power: Fighting rocks Beirut, Hezbollah defiant. BEIRUT (Reuters) - Fierce clashes raged in Beirut on Thursday after the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah said the U.S.-supported Lebanese government had declared war by targeting its ...
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Installing MS Core Fonts in Ubuntu and Fedora 8
Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:05:58 am PDT
Here’s an open thread, as I install the Microsoft Truetype “core” fonts in Ubuntu and Fedora 8. This is the font package that’s on nearly every Mac and PC, including Verdana, Arial, and Georgia — fonts that are used on 90%+ of the web pages in existence, but don’t come installed ...
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Vietnam Springs Into Action, Fights Terrorism
Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:11:09 am PDT
The Communist government of Vietnam would like us all to know that they are committed to counter-terrorism. They said this at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, of which they are a member. Vietnam is committed to counter-terrorism and the non-proliferation of mass destruction weapons under international treaties ...
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Hizballah: Lebanese Government Declared War on Us
Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:10:27 am PDT
Things are heating up in Lebanon after the government began a crackdown on Hizballah’s illegal telecommunications network: Hezbollah says Beirut government declares war. BEIRUT, May 8 (Reuters) - The Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah said on Thursday the U.S.-supported Beirut government had declared war by targeting its communications network. Hezbollah launched a ...
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Thursday Early Morning Open
Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:12:01 am PDT
Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
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Tech Note: Uploading Personal Icons
Wed, May 7, 2008 at 7:02:02 pm PDT
From a glance at the PHP error logs I can see that more than a few registered lizards are having trouble uploading an image for their personal icon. The most common causes are: * Trying to upload an image that’s too large. We don’t have unlimited storage space for images, so ...
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Windy Up There
Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:29:30 pm PDT
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Daily Kos: Bush a 'Classic Psychopath,' Republicans in General Even Worse
Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:07:52 pm PDT
The Kos Kids are doing that lovable armchair analysis thing again, demonstrating with relentless logic that George Bush Fits Clinical Profile of a Psychopath to a Tee. The research of Dr. Hervey Cleckley and Dr. Robert Hare exploring the personality and character traits of psychopaths, when applied to George Bush, ...
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We Got Mail!
Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:17:45 pm PDT
Today’s message comes to us from Como (a beautiful town on a lake in the Lombardia region of Italy), site of a new outbreak of the Troofer virus. The subject line of this appeal for Troof: “The evidence demonstrates that 911 was deliberately allowed occur.” Come on, tell me why ...
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Mystery at CAIR-Tampa
Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:24:54 pm PDT
One of CAIR’s chief propagandists has apparently split with the radical Islamic front group: The Mystery at CAIR-Tampa. The Council on American-Islamic Relations appears to have parted ways with one of its highest profile executives, but no one is saying why. Ahmed Bedier, executive director of CAIR’s Tampa chapter, is no ...
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Daily Kos: Progressives Who Hate Israel
Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:10:57 pm PDT
On Israel’s 60th anniversary, the progressives at Daily Kos are letting their true feelings come out: Daily Kos: In response to ‘Progressives do not like Israel’.. Notice that this diary post is by “abesilberstein.” There was a post today , Which talked about progressives not liking Israel. Israel is unfortunately a State ...
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A Lone Creationist at UC Berkeley
Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:54:02 am PDT
Zomblog has photos of a creationist inspired by Ben Stein’s movie Expelled, bringing Ben’s message to the heathens at UC Berkeley: Here come the pro-Expelled demonstrations.
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Harris: Our Spineless Media
Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:05:04 am PDT
At Huffington Post, of all places, an excellent article by Sam Harris on Western media’s self-censorship in the face of radical Islamic intimidation: Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks. And the Washington Post is among the very worst of the cringing media; they’ve given up all pretense of informing the ...
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Tuesday Night Open
Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:42:58 pm PDT
The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocracy. — Emily Dickinson
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Democratic Race Night 1
Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:23:23 pm PDT
Barack Obama has won the primary in North Carolina, but Hillary Clinton has a significant lead in Indiana as of this writing: Obama wins North Carolina as Clinton leads Indiana.
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Al Jazeera Cameraman: Gitmo the 'Most Heinous Prison Mankind Has Ever Known'
Tue, May 6, 2008 at 3:19:57 pm PDT
That Al Jazeera cameraman recently released from Guantanamo Bay was dragged out of his hospital bed (he’s the victim of a hunger strike) and propped up in front of the cameras by the Sudanese regime yesterday in Khartoum, to say that the Gitmo facility was the absolute worst prison in ...
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Blue Collar Voters Bailing on Obama in IN and NC?
Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:36:25 pm PDT
Exit polls now being reported show Barack Obama way behind Hillary Clinton among working class voters in Indiana and North Carolina. (“Working class” being defined in this poll as “whites with no college degree.”) Indiana — Clinton: 65%, Obama: 34% North Carolina — Clinton: 67%, Obama: 26% UPDATE at 5/6/08 2:54:16 pm: These polls ...
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Linux Shootout
Tue, May 6, 2008 at 12:19:21 pm PDT
I’ve been a bit surprised by the number of LGF readers interested in using the Linux OS as an alternative to Windows or Mac OS. It’s probably happening because the latest versions of Linux distributions like Ubuntu have gotten much easier to install and use, and they typically come with ...
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Hamas MP: Pepsi Stands For 'Pay Every Pence to Save Israel'
Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:38:16 am PDT
Here’s one of those bizarre Arabic clips that’s like a TV show from a parallel universe, where the rules of cause and effect and logic are ... different. Who knew that Pepsi Cola was a tool of the International Zionist Conspiracy? (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video]
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Relentless Anti-Israel Propaganda from Reuters
Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:20:55 am PDT
Reuters can’t even stop churning out anti-Israel propaganda on Israel’s 60th birthday, with a stunningly dishonest account of the Arab war on Israel: Turning 60, Israelis feel pride, Palestinians pain. For Shamali, it is time to mourn the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” when 700,000 Palestinians, his own family among them, fled ...
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McCain to Attend La Raza Conference
Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:37:46 am PDT
Why is John McCain pandering to a rabidly racist Mexican-American group with an open agenda to turn the Western states of the US into “Aztlan?” McCain to attend La Raza’s annual conference.
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Iran Building Illegal Telecom Network in Lebanon
Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:22:34 am PDT
According to a Lebanese government report, Iran is helping the terrorist group Hizballah build an illegal telecommunications network capable of eavesdropping on all telephone calls in the country. Syria and Iran are preparing their proxy terrorists for war on Israel, and this is another front. An official Lebanese government report reveals ...
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Tuesday Early Morning Open
Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:49:20 am PDT
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked. — H. L. Mencken
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Lost in Linux Land 2
Mon, May 5, 2008 at 6:41:35 pm PDT
Some observations after a couple of days experimenting with installing different Linux versions under VMware Fusion in Mac OS 10.5.2: * So far, I’ve had the best success with Fedora Core 8 (version 9 is only a few days away), and Ubuntu 8.04. If you prefer the KDE desktop, Kubuntu also ...
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O'Rourke: Get Politically Uninvolved
Mon, May 5, 2008 at 6:12:02 pm PDT
A commencement address from P. J. O’Rourke, imparting wisdom to callow youth: Fairness, idealism and other atrocities. 3. Get politically uninvolved! All politics stink. Even democracy stinks. Imagine if our clothes were selected by the majority of shoppers, which would be teenage girls. I’d be standing here with my bellybutton exposed. ...
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Monday Afternoon Open
Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:48:39 pm PDT
An open thread as I babysit Fedora 8 through the 280+ updates it needed immediately after installation...
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Mainstream Media Still Whitewashing CAIR
Mon, May 5, 2008 at 11:29:51 am PDT
With all of the verified, documented information that has come to light about the Council on American Islamic Relations and their ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood—not to mention their status as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas funding trial—there’s simply no excuse for a context-free, ...
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Obama Damaged by Rev. Wright
Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:55:34 am PDT
The unanswered questions about Barack Obama’s 20-year friendship with Reverend Jeremiah Wright have seriously damaged Obama’s poll numbers. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama’s standing has been significantly damaged by the controversy over his former pastor, according to USA Today/Gallup poll published on Monday. The poll showed Hillary Clinton ...
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Orwellian Video of the Day
Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:33:11 am PDT
The BBC knows where you live. You can’t hide. You’re in the database. [Video] (Hat tip: Biased BBC.)
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Obama's Employer Desecrated Flag
Mon, May 5, 2008 at 8:31:14 am PDT
Here’s a photo of former Weather Underground terrorist (and friend of Barack Obama) William Ayers in 2001 (when Obama was much older than 8), proudly stepping on a United States flag. The full article on Ayers’ deeply held radical ideas is here: No Regrets. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) More blog reactions: Marathon Pundit: ...
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Monday Early Morning Open
Mon, May 5, 2008 at 3:01:03 am PDT
The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on. — Joseph Heller
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He's Still Got It
Sun, May 4, 2008 at 7:49:03 pm PDT
After 2 faint, Clinton cracks joke about making ‘em swoon. LENOIR, N.C. (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton is cracking wise about his ability to make people faint, telling voters in North Carolina he didn’t think he still had it in him. Clinton was campaigning Sunday for his wife’s presidential bid ...
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The Door Opens - Update: The Door Closes
Sun, May 4, 2008 at 6:43:18 pm PDT
Registration is now open for the standard, admittedly frustrating limited time. Read all the instructions, turn off spam filters, and if you don’t receive the confirmation email look for a link in the left sidebar that says “Re-send Confirmation.” UPDATE at 5/4/08 7:31:37 pm: Now closed, with 89 hatchlings on the delousing ...
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Raging Obama
Sun, May 4, 2008 at 6:07:01 pm PDT
He’s irritated, he’s angry, he burns with barely suppressed rage: Michelle Obama: Barack has hit boiling point. Fear him! (Oh, not you, Iran...) Barack Obama is struggling to contain his anger and frustration over the constant barrage of questions about his character and judgment, his wife has revealed. Michelle Obama lifted the ...
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Ringo's Pix: May Day in LA
Sun, May 4, 2008 at 6:04:23 pm PDT
Ringo the Gringo has an excellent photo/video essay on the May Day Demonstration in Los Angeles, CA on May 1, 2008—which turned out to be much smaller than last year’s event.
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Lost in Linux
Sun, May 4, 2008 at 3:32:23 pm PDT
One of the coolest things about Intel-based Macs is that with the aid of Boot Camp or VMware Fusion, you can easily have several different operating systems running at once, all of them working pretty much at full speed with full compatibility. I’ve had a copy of Red Hat Linux ...
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RoP Watch
Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:56:10 pm PDT
Pray or die. PESHAWAR: Activists of the Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) killed a man in Sarband Police Station jurisdiction on Saturday, police said. Sources within the police told Daily Times that Mukarram, son of Asadullah, was chastised by LI men for not offering Asr prayers and standing outside a mosque. When Mukarram ...
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Midday Open Thread
Sun, May 4, 2008 at 12:53:30 pm PDT
An open thread for a spring Sunday...
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Strategic Collapse in the War on Terror
Sun, May 4, 2008 at 11:58:59 am PDT
Here’s a good piece by Joseph Myers at American Thinker, on the misguided, fantasy-minded speech code imposed by the State Department and Department of Homeland Security: Strategic Collapse in the War on Terror. Recent government policy memoranda, circulating through the national counter-terrorism and diplomatic community, establishes a new “speech ...
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WaPo Writer: White Christians Are Racists, Black Liberation Theology is Cool
Sun, May 4, 2008 at 10:00:06 am PDT
Washington Post writer Sally Quinn is one of the people behind the Post/Newsweek’s ludicrous “On Faith” project, which, as we’ve documented many times, has been a welcoming forum for antisemites, Holocaust deniers, radical Islamists and radical leftists—promoted as “interfaith dialog.” Ms Quinn appeared on the Charlie Rose show Wednesday night, and ...
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Steyn: To Obama, 'We' Means 'Me'
Sun, May 4, 2008 at 9:16:04 am PDT
Mark Steyn on Barack Obama’s sudden decision to throw his pastor of 20 years under the bus: To Obama, ‘we’ means ‘me’. The notion that the Amazing Obama might be just another politician doing what politicians do seems to have affronted the senator more than any of the stuff about ...
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Saturday Night Open
Sat, May 3, 2008 at 8:23:31 pm PDT
An open thread for a Saturday evening...
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UK Muslim Group Attacks New London Mayor
Sat, May 3, 2008 at 7:17:56 pm PDT
Britain’s Muslim Public Affairs Committee is so upset about new London Mayor Boris Johnson, they just couldn’t help posting photos of him associating with Jews: MPACUK - The BNP’s Second Favourite Candidate. Because the hatred is best when openly expressed. (Hat tip: Killgore.)
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The Media Are the Enemy
Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:32:24 pm PDT
You have got to be kidding me. Britain’s largest newspaper is now “embedding” reporters with the Mahdi Army?
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Burqa Bandit in Philly?
Sat, May 3, 2008 at 5:50:22 pm PDT
We may have another burqa bandit case in Philadelphia, and this time a policeman has been murdered: Officer Shot, Killed After Bank Robbery. PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia police said a veteran police officer was shot and killed in the Port Richmond section of the city on Saturday. Steven Liczbinski, 40, a ...
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Lebanon's Jumblatt Wants Ban on Iranian Flights
Sat, May 3, 2008 at 4:58:19 pm PDT
Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt has had quite a change of heart from the days when he used to sound like a Troofer; now he wants to ban flights from Iran. BEIRUT (AFP) - A leading member of Lebanon’s Western-backed ruling coalition called on Saturday for a ban on flights ...
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A Flying Camel Moment?
Sat, May 3, 2008 at 12:51:30 pm PDT
I’m tempted to call this a flying pig moment, but that would be culturally insensitive: A first for Saudis: Mozart performed publicly and women can attend. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - It’s probably as revolutionary and groundbreaking as Mozart gets these days. A German-based quartet staged Saudi Arabia’s first-ever performance of ...
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A Really Smelly Idea
Sat, May 3, 2008 at 10:48:16 am PDT
This is what the world needs to take that next big technological step: Text messages that stink.
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The Way Out is Through
Sat, May 3, 2008 at 10:12:48 am PDT
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Dirty Trick Season
Sat, May 3, 2008 at 9:23:20 am PDT
If you haven’t already, go read the debunking of that doctored video clip featuring a Clinton operative saying nasty things about Indianans. (Before you email asking why I haven’t posted the video...) I suspect that in this election season we’re going to see a lot more of this stuff, and it will ...
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UK Conservatives Celebrate As Red Ken Gets the Axe
Sat, May 3, 2008 at 8:32:55 am PDT
Over at ConservativeHome’s ToryDiary, they’re still partying over the defeat of loony left London mayor “Red Ken” Livingstone. Winning London. Ousting Ken Livingstone - something never achieved by Margaret Thatcher or Tony Blair. Holding as many councils in Wales as Labour. Winning Bury in the North West ...
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It's a World of Spambots
Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:05:44 pm PDT
Let’s have a look at the contact form anti-spambot log, and see where the spambots are coming from tonight, shall we? China Mexico Iran Poland Israel
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Gibson vs. Offensive McCain Questioner
Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:58:38 pm PDT
A classic bit of radio, as John Gibson confronts the moron from Huffington Post who asked John McCain that nasty question at a town hall meeting. Gets funnier and funnier. This is why we call them moonbats. [Video] (Hat tip: johnny dollar’s place, which you should check every day.)
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Tech Note: Re-Send the Activation Email
Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:10:44 pm PDT
A new feature tonight, especially for the newly hatched among us. Our registration system works by sending an email containing a link that must be clicked to activate the account. But occasionally this confirmation email does not reach the hapless hatchling. Some think the most common cause of this problem is over-zealous ...
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Offensive McCain Questioner: From Huffington Post
Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:28:05 pm PDT
You may have heard about that stunt where someone asked John McCain if he had ever called his wife a certain rude word; it now looks like the Huffington Post was behind it. Classy!
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Friday Afternoon Blazing Saddles
Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:58:28 pm PDT
For the sheer everlovin’ heck of it, one of the funniest bits from one of the all-time funniest movies, with the great Madeline Kahn as Bavarian temptress Lilly von Schtupp. [Video]
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Quartet Springs Into Action
Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:39:11 am PDT
World powers urge Arabs to honor Palestinian pledges. LONDON (Reuters) - World powers called on Friday on Arab states to honor their financial and political pledges to help the Palestinians in their U.S.-backed Middle East peace effort with Israel. Good luck with that.
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Silly Moonbat Picture of the Day
Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:27:29 am PDT
Oh brother. If you can believe this, Code Pink and a bunch of similarly “minded” morons are still ranting about impeachment: Town hall calls for impeachment to save the Constitution : Indybay. A regional town hall on the subject “Are Peace and Impeachment Possible?” was held in Oakland to reaffirm ...
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Red Ken Tossed Out
Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:39:36 am PDT
The reign of the terrorist-hugging, America-hating, communist mayor of London, “Red Ken” Livingstone, is history as the Tories chalk up a big electoral victory. Senior Conservative sources said they would be “gobsmacked” if Mr Johnson did not win the mayoral contest and even Downing Street aides appear to have conceded ...
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Daily Kos Defends Hizballah Supporters
Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:22:14 am PDT
An extended defense of Dearborn Arab-Americans who support the terrorist group Hizballah, by a Daily Kos front page writer: Daily Kos: McCain, Hezbollah, Arab-Americans and Bigots. As Tapper points out, Jawad has said things about Hezbollah that make it sound less sinister than one would think a group would be ...
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French Nazi Hits the Skids
Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:10:25 am PDT
French fascist leader Jean-Marie Le Pen has fallen on hard times, and it couldn’t happen to a nicer crypto-Nazi: France’s Le Pen selling bullet-proof car on eBay. PARIS (Reuters) - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen is looking to make a bit of extra cash by putting his old bullet-proof ...
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Who Advised the DHS/State to Ban the Word 'Jihad'?
Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:47:00 am PDT
The Investigative Project has released the appalling memos from the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department banning the use of words like “jihad” and “mujahideen,” a disturbingly misguided effort to fight a real world problem with fantasy measures. Steven Emerson tried to find out which Muslim groups were ...
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Why Are Islamic Advocates Opposed to Fighting Jihad?
Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:16:56 am PDT
Representative Sue Myrick (R-NC) has proposed a ten-point plan to stop the infiltration of radical Islam into American society, and Robert Spencer asks a simple question: why are Islamic advocates opposed to the plan?
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Krauthammer Revisits the 'Race' Speech
Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:12:05 am PDT
The Barack Obama campaign is desperately hoping that most Americans are dumb hicks with the memory retention of soap dishes; because if they start to compare what he said in that Philadelphia “race” speech last March with what he said last Tuesday, he’s sunk: The ‘Race’ Speech Revisited. “I can ...
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Friday Early Morning Open
Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:10:12 am PDT
You can’t step twice into the same river. — Heraclitus
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Abbas Gets a Catheter
Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:24:02 pm PDT
Being the head of a terrorist organization that’s trying to keep up a front of not being a terrorist organization is evidently very stressful: Erekat: Abbas ‘doing very, very well’ after heart procedure. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas underwent an unannounced heart procedure at a Jordanian hospital on Thursday, adding new ...
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Video: Iraqi TV Station Shows US Presidents As Murderers
Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:38:21 pm PDT
Nice. This is running as filler material on Iraq’s Al-Rafidein TV, showing a procession of US presidents—yes, even Jimmy Carter—portrayed as smiling murderers, ending on an image of the Presidential Seal with a death’s head splashed in blood. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Masters of the White House - Presidents of ...
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Hillary on O'Reilly, Thread 2
Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:11:18 pm PDT
Here’s an open thread to discuss the second part of Bill O’Reilly’s interview with Hillary Clinton...
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Stein: Science Leads to Killing People
Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:40:57 pm PDT
Sorry, Ben; I agree with you on a lot of things, but with this intelligent design detour you’ve gone completely off the rails. In an interview with the Trinity Broadcasting Network, Ben Stein said the following amazing thing in an interview with Paul Crouch, Jr. Stein: When we just saw ...
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And Now, the Nakba Dwarf
Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:00:43 pm PDT
That mahimahi I had for dinner must have been bad; it’s giving me hallucinations about a malignant dwarf with an automatic rifle, dressed as a stereotype Jew. Palestinians take part in a play in commemoration of Nakba Day “The Day of Catastrophe” during a rally in Gaza May 1, 2008. ...
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Our Friends the Saudis
Thu, May 1, 2008 at 11:11:47 am PDT
In the apartheid theocracy of Saudi Arabia, a Turkish barber has been condemned to death by beheading for blasphemy. HATAY - A Saudi Arabian court on Thursday ratified the conviction of Turkish barber Sabri Bogday, who was sentenced to beheading in Saudi Arabia on charges of “cursing the name of ...
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100,000 Expected for LA May Day Demonstrations
Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:08:44 am PDT
It’s difficult not to be a bit worried about this planned demonstration in Los Angeles, with more than 100,000 demonstrators expected (including a large contingent of La Raza/Aztlan agitators): It’s May Day, which means marches, and a lot of roads are closed. UPDATE at 5/1/08 6:33:25 pm: Thankfully, there were no disturbances. ...
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Anti-War Protest Stops West Coast Shipping
Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:45:50 am PDT
Port workers staging an anti-war protest have apparently shut down all cargo operations on the west coast. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Terminal operators say West Coast cargo traffic has come to a halt as port workers stage daylong anti-war protests. Pacific Maritime Association spokesman Steve Getzug says thousands of dockworkers did ...
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Hamas TV: Jewish Leaders Planned the Holocaust
Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:34:19 am PDT
The friends of Jimmy Carter broadcast an “educational program” on Hamas TV recently, explaining that Jewish leaders planned the Holocaust. Jewish leaders planned the Holocaust to kill “disabled and handicapped” Jews to avoid having to care for them, according to a Hamas TV educational program. As much of the world ...
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Kos Hearts Pat Buchanan
Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:19:06 am PDT
In his search for something, anything to help spin the events of the last few days, Markos “Screw Them” Moulitsas resorts to quoting ... Pat Buchanan? Daily Kos: Bush more unpopular than Wright. Pat Buchanan, on MSNBC: If President Bush is more unpopular than the Reverend Wright, the Republicans are ...
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Nice Try, Barry
Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:20:44 am PDT
It’s amazing what the Obamas are able to say with straight faces: Obama says public tired of hearing about his former pastor. WASHINGTON - Democrat Barack Obama and his wife said Thursday the public is tired of hearing about incendiary remarks by their former pastor, as they sought to put ...
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Obama Support Plummets
Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:15:39 am PDT
Dramatic shifts in polling results today, as Barack Obama’s support takes a serious hit after his way-too-late attempt to distance himself from the hate speech of Jeremiah Wright: RealClearPolitics - Election 2008 National Head-to-Head Polls. UPDATE at 5/1/08 9:11:06 am: Also see: Hot Air - Rasmussen: Ten-point swing towards Hillary since Wright’s presser ...
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British Jews Who Hate Israel
Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:01:42 am PDT
In one of the most disgusting displays of abject self-hatred I’ve ever seen, a group of British Jews makes a sickening statement: Letters: We’re not celebrating Israel’s anniversary.
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Thursday Early Morning Open
Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:29:40 am PDT
The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. — William Shakespeare
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