LGF Archives: July 2009
The Video Anthony Watts Doesn't Want You to See
Environment | Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:27:16 pm PDT
Climate change “skeptic” Anthony Watts tried to use YouTube’s copyright rules to suppress this video by Peter Sinclair. Good luck with that. [Video] UPDATE at 8/1/09 1:51:36 pm: Anthony Watts replies.
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Beach Ball
Images | Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:36:07 pm PDT
Camera: Nikon D90.
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Serious iPhone Vulnerability Fixed
Technology | Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:06:40 pm PDT
A day after a major security issue was annnounced in the iPhone 3.0 software, Apple has released version 3.0.1: Apple Fixes Serious iPhone SMS Attack. The SMS-based attack described at the Black Hat security conference allows a bad guy to gain complete control of an iPhone by sending a barrage of ...
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Clunkermania
US News | Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:15:49 pm PDT
Here’s the list of eligible clunkers, as Congress pumps $2 billion more into the program: Full List Of Disqualified Cars Under Cash For Clunkers Refresh.
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Friday Afternoon Open
Open | Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:56:59 pm PDT
The traditional midday open thread, with time lapse video of Los Angeles... [Video]
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Still Think Nirthers Are a 'Fringe' Group? Think Again
Weird | Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:56:33 am PDT
Yes, the poll was commissioned by Daily Kos (because they want to exploit the Nirther craziness as much as possible, and I can’t blame them), but on the other hand Research 2000 appears to be a reputable polling company. And the poll shows exactly why so many Republican politicians are pandering ...
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Free Republic Freaking Out About the Coming of the Anti-Christ
Weird | Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:05:58 am PDT
Still more serious bad craziness at Free Republic: Did Jesus Reveal to us the name of the Anti-Christ? Linked to this whacked out video. And just take a wild guess who hundreds of Free Republic commenters seriously believe is the anti-Christ.
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Krauthammer: Obamacare: The Coming Retreat
Opinion | Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:34:25 am PDT
Charles Krauthammer’s Friday column examines the reasons for the collapse of Barack Obama’s massive health care reform: Obama Will Settle for Less on Health Care. Whatever structural reforms dribble out of Congress before the August recess will likely not survive the year. In the end, Obama will have to settle ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:09:22 pm PDT
If not for the courage of the fearless crew, the Minnow would be lost. The Minnow would be lost. — Gilligan’s Island
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Video: Fear My Turkey Horde
Humor | Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:32:45 pm PDT
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Nigerian Police Kill 100 Islamists in a Mosque
World | Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:34:17 pm PDT
Imagine world reaction if Israel responded to Palestinian terror attacks like this.
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Tech Note: More Embedded Videos in Comments
Technology | Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:51:04 pm PDT
Registered users have been able to embed video clips in their LGF comments for several months; today I added a new format to the list of embeddable video types: Vimeo.com. To embed a Vimeo clip in a comment, go to the page at the Vimeo website that has the video, and ...
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Beer Brings Us All Together
US News | Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:21:48 pm PDT
The moment we’ve all be waiting for...
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Koala Rides Mom
Images | Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:56:00 pm PDT
Our shameless baby animal post of the day is from the Tama Zoo in Tokyo, via the Internet Center for the Study of Non-Human Cuteness, ZooBorns.
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Dan Rather Calls on Obama to Save the Media
Media | Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:56:38 am PDT
The irrepressible Dan Rather wants President Barack Obama to form a commission and save the media. Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather called on President Barack Obama to form a White House commission to help save the press Tuesday night in an impassioned speech at the Aspen Institute. “I personally encourage ...
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White House Meeting Scheduled for Beer O'Clock
US News | Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:01:33 am PDT
It’s time for President Barack Obama, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Police Sgt. James Crowley to sit down together in the White House and pound some brewskies, and the beer companies are competing to promote their products: Beer brewers beg for White House berth. Ain’t that America? “Yuengling is proud to ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:25:32 pm PDT
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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HuffPo: Crazy About Health
Health | Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:57:49 pm PDT
The new age quackery at the Huffington Post is starting to be obvious even to Salon: The Huffington Post is crazy about your health. The Huffington Post is one of the most valuable pieces of real estate on the Internet these days. It operates mostly as a news aggregation site ...
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Wednesday Night Lounge
Private | Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:09:18 pm PDT
The Lizard Lounge is now open for a world-weary Wednesday evening. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. This is a private thread; comments are ...
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Wednesday Night Music: Brecker Brothers, 'Some Skunk Funk' on Overdrive
Music | Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:15:48 pm PDT
If you know the classic Brecker Brothers tune “Some Skunk Funk,” you might not recognize it in this insanely fast version performed in Nagoya, Japan, in 1993. Michael Brecker’s tenor solo is mind-boggling. [Video]
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Debunking a Corollary to the Nirth Certifikit Theory
Weird | Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:34:32 pm PDT
Even among people who accept that Barack Obama is a US citizen, a sort of “spinoff” idea keeps coming up in our discussions of the Nirther craziness: that Barack Obama “won’t release” his original birth certificate (some people refer to it as a “long form” certificate) because there’s something on ...
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Onion: Holyfield vs. Evening Dream
Humor | Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:11:10 pm PDT
“Realistically, Holyfield’s only gonna be able to punch that horse once before it goes totally berserk.” [Video]
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No Health Care Vote Before August Break
Politics | Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:43:44 am PDT
The Blue Dogs have cut a deal with House Dems, and there’s not going to be a vote on health care before the August recess. The Energy and Commerce Committee will resume its markup of healthcare legislation Wednesday afternoon under a deal between Blue Dogs and House leaders, but there ...
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Murderous Anti-Evolution Nigerian Islamists
World | Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:00:42 am PDT
A militant Islamic group called the “Nigerian Taliban” has killed dozens of people with coordinated attacks in the northern part of Nigeria, with the goal of overthrowing the government, imposing strict sharia law, and abolishing “Western-style education.” Especially that whole “rain” concept. They don’t accept that rain is evaporated water. In ...
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Steele: Obama is a 'US Citizen'
Weird | Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:26:11 am PDT
RNC chairman Michael Steele risks the wrath of the Nirth Certifikit horde. Chairman Steele believes that this is an unnecessary distraction and believes that the president is a U.S. citizen. Chairman Steele wants to move beyond this conversation and continue discussing the real and immediate concerns that face American families ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:28:43 pm PDT
Colonel Tom Edwards: Why is it so important that you want to contact the governments of our earth? Eros: Because of death. Because all you of Earth are idiots. Jeff Trent: Now you just hold on, Buster. Eros: No, you hold on. First was your firecracker, a harmless explosive. Then your hand grenade: ...
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Texas GOP Rep. Gohmert on Alex Jones Radio Show
Weird | Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:22:29 pm PDT
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) has a nice cozy chat with freakazoid Alex Jones about Barack Obama’s secret plan to euthanize senior citizens. You know, like Hitler. Again I say, good grief. [Video]
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Colin Powell: The GOP's Afraid of Rush
Politics | Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:04:26 pm PDT
Colin Powell says GOP leaders are afraid of Rush Limbaugh. [Video]
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Tuesday Afternoon Open
Open | Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:17:25 pm PDT
Let’s not blow this whole thing up out of proportion; it’s just an open thread for a Tuesday afternoon...
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Video: Glenn Beck Calls Obama a 'Racist'
Weird | Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:55:04 am PDT
This morning on “Fox and Friends,” Glenn Beck said Barack Obama has a deep-seated hatred for white people and white culture, and is a racist. Good grief. [Video] Beck: This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white ...
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Jihad in North Carolina
US News | Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:26:37 am PDT
Seven men, all but one of them US citizens, have been arrested in North Carolina in a homegrown jihad plot: 7 arrested in North Carolina on terrorism charges. [Video] Federal authorities in North Carolina on Monday arrested seven men who they said had trained with high-powered weapons as part of a ...
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Hawaii Reiterates: Obama Birth Certificate is Real
Weird | Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:48:39 am PDT
The director of the Hawaii Department of Health, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, has issued a second statement that she has personally seen Barack Obama’s original birth certificate from 1961 in the state’s archives: Hawaii: Obama birth certificate is real. “I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, ...
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Breaking: Senate Panel Approves Sotomayor
Politics | Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:12:16 am PDT
Word is just coming across the wires that the Senate Judiciary Panel has approved Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:14:37 pm PDT
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you. — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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NYT: The Story Behind Dr. Tiller's Murder
US News | Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:13:11 pm PDT
The Sunday edition of the New York Times has a very good, in-depth piece by David Barstow on Dr. George Tiller, and the history of fanaticism, threats, media provocation, and violence leading up to his murder: An Abortion Battle, Fought to the Death. Long ago, he had accepted the possibility ...
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A Nirther Kinda Monday
Weird | Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:14:25 pm PDT
Where are all these Nirthers coming from? Is there a factory somewhere? Here’s video of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs answering the question, “Is there anything you can say to make the Birthers go away?” The answer, of course, is “No.” Near the end he has a little verbal joust with “Lester” ...
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Dictaplomacy
World | Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:41:05 pm PDT
Daniel Freedman has a good commentary piece at Forbes, on Iran’s ’Dictaplomacy’.
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Birthers on the Hill
Weird | Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:44:51 am PDT
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you your elected Republican officials. Only one, Trent Franks (R-Arizona), issues an unequivocal denunciation of the Birth Certificate loons. Most of the others avoid the question, and one or two seem to be Nirthers themselves. [Video] It really stinks that Huffington Post and Mike Stark are milking ...
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Coulter: Nirthers Are Just a Few 'Cranks'
Weird | Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:01:09 am PDT
Ann Coulter brushes off the nirth certifikit kooks as just a few cranks, nothing to worry about, pay no attention, it’s the media trying to make conservatives look bad again. (Notice, however, that she turns around and throws the cranks a bone at the end.) [Video] What a lame apology. Nobody knows exactly ...
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Yon: Artery of Opium
World | Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:23:06 am PDT
Michael Yon in Afghanistan’s Helmand River valley: An Artery of Opium, a Vein of Taliban.
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:15:21 pm PDT
I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them. — Ansel Adams, 1981
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Tech Note: Timeout Feature Segues into Sunday Night Lounge
Private | Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 6:32:22 pm PDT
We’re pulling the cover off a new feature for the LGF Blog — a “timeout” block, instead of a permanent block. It’s a temporary block on a registered lizard’s account that expires in 24 hours. Intense consultation, lengthy meetings, and heinously expensive focus-grouping resulted in the consensus that we need more ...
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Fence
Images | Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 3:50:37 pm PDT
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US Announces $200M to Palestinians
Middle East | Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 3:05:10 pm PDT
It’s a good thing we’re not having any kind of recession or financial crisis or massive deficit or anything like that here in the US, so we can afford to send $200 million in aid to Palestinians. And that’s just the first installment — we’ve promised almost a billion smackeroos to ...
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Bad Craziness at Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty Website
Weird | Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 12:55:41 pm PDT
On Friday, we noted that Dr. David McKalip (the Florida neurosurgeon who sent out that ugly image of Barack Obama as a witch doctor with a bone through his nose to a tea party mailing list) is deeply connected with the “Campaign for Liberty” organization founded by paleolibertarian Ron Paul. Adam ...
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Tour de France Wrap-Up
Sports | Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 10:56:39 am PDT
If you’ve been watching the Tour de France, I don’t think it will be a spoiler to let you know that at today’s finish the three men standing on the podium were the ones who’ve been leading for the past week — Contador, Schleck, and Armstrong, in that order: Contador ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:15:13 pm PDT
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. — Groucho Marx to S. J. Perelman, about his book “Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge”
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Video Widget: Watchmen Preview
Entertainment | Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 8:23:39 pm PDT
The director’s cut of the incredible film Watchmen is now available at Amazon’s Video on Demand, to watch immediately over the web. Friends told me about the Watchmen graphic novel years ago; I bought it and started to read, but for some reason never got drawn in enough to finish ...
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The Earth, Eclipsed
Images | Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 6:35:25 pm PDT
Ten years ago APOD ran this photograph, a view from the Mir Space Station of the Moon’s shadow passing over the Earth during a total solar eclipse. (Hat tip: Racer X.)
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Video: Gadafi Says Libya Was on the Brink of Producing a Nuclear Bomb
Video | Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:33:35 pm PDT
Libyan dictator “Col.” Muammar Gadafi, the Man of Many Spellings with the all-girl bodyguard squad, says that when Libya gave up its nuclear program (following the invasion of Iraq), they were on the brink of producing a nuclear bomb. I’ve realized that what seems like total insanity in Muammar Gadafi is ...
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White House Beer Tastes Better
Politics | Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 3:16:49 pm PDT
Beer — the universal language. Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. said he accepted an invitation to have a beer with the white police officer who arrested him this week. Gates, a black scholar, in a statement posted late Friday at The Root, accepted President Obama’s invitation to come to the ...
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Saturday Afternoon Open
Open | Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:49:09 am PDT
Here’s your traditional midday open thread ...
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Top Evangelist Preacher Convicted of Pedophilia
US News | Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:03:07 am PDT
Evangelist Tony Alamo, owner of a multi-million dollar “church” that sold elaborate clothing to celebrities such as Michael Jackson, has been convicted of a series of disgusting crimes involving sex with girls as young as 9 years old. Five women testified at his trial that Alamo transported them across state ...
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Associated Press Declares War on the Internet
Media | Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:39:31 am PDT
Here’s one of the most short-sighted and self-destructive things I’ve ever seen the Associated Press do — they’re going to try to prevent search engines and blogs from even linking to their articles, unless they pay for the privilege. Unbelievable. Rather than embrace the openness of the web and the vastly ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:17:00 pm PDT
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat. — Sophocles
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Friday Night Lounge
Private | Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 5:43:24 pm PDT
The Lizard Lounge is now open for a freaky Friday evening. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. This is a private thread; comments are ...
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CNN President Tries to Stop the Birther Craziness on His Network
Weird | Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 5:11:25 pm PDT
Lou Dobbs is the latest so-called “conservative” to keep promoting the Nirther insanity long after its sell-by date, and yesterday the president of CNN told him to knock it off (not in so many words): Jon Klein on Birthers: ‘It Seems This Story is Dead’. TVNewser has learned CNN/U.S. president ...
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Tea Party Leader Backs Racist Doc
US News | Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:04:31 pm PDT
The national coordinator of the American Tea Party movement, Amy Kremer, apparently sees nothing wrong with circulating a picture of Barack Obama as a witch doctor with a bone through his nose, and she’s pledging her support to Dr. David McKalip: Tea Party Leader To McKalip: ‘We All Have Your ...
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Totten: The Future of Iraq, Part IV
Middle East | Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:04:47 pm PDT
Michael Totten continues his must-read series on The Future of Iraq, Part IV. I don’t think many Iraqis today are afraid of the state. But everybody was terrified of Saddam Hussein’s totalitarian government. Speaking their minds could get them imprisoned or killed. It could get an entire family dragged off ...
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Amazon CEO Apologizes for Orwell Deletions
Books | Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:27:01 pm PDT
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has personally apologized for their misguided deletion of two George Orwell novels from customers’ Kindles: An Apology from Amazon - kindle Discussion Forum. This is an apology for the way we previously handled illegally sold copies of 1984 and other novels on Kindle. Our “solution” to ...
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Obama: I Hope This Will Become a Teachable Moment
Politics | Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:38:40 am PDT
Barack Obama is holding a press conference on his outrageous characterization of the Cambridge police as “stupid.” Here’s a thread to discuss, as he actually claims that this should be a “teachable moment.” Not for him, of course. For everyone else.
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Racist Doctor Connected to Ron Paul
US News | Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:45:51 am PDT
Dr. David McKalip, who sent out that vile racist image of Barack Obama as a witch doctor (with a bone through his nose) to a tea party mailing list, is deeply connected with Ron Paul and his “Campaign for Liberty” organization. Here’s an article he published at their website yesterday: ...
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Krauthammer: Why Obamacare Is Sinking
Opinion | Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:05:06 am PDT
Obama’s health care reform plans are in serious trouble, and Charles Krauthammer explains why: Why Obamacare Is Sinking. What happened to Obamacare? Rhetoric met reality. As both candidate and president, the master rhetorician could conjure a world in which he bestows upon you health-care nirvana: more coverage, less cost. But you ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:24:37 pm PDT
There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts. — Richard Feynman
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CBS News Gets Their Smear On
US News | Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:15:25 pm PDT
Charles Cooper of CBS News noticed our post about Barack Obama’s smear of the Cambridge Police Department, and mentioned us in this borderline incoherent editorial: When It’s Not So Black And White. (CBS) As soon as President Obama was asked for the details in the case were destined to ...
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Mocking the Nirthers Is Easy
Video | Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:00:30 pm PDT
Comedy Central Video
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Bizarre Crime Story of the Day
US News | Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:37:28 pm PDT
The latest outbreak of bad craziness involves three mayors and five rabbis, in a huge corruption and money laundering ring: Mayors of Hoboken, Secaucus, Five Rabbis Arrested. July 23 (Bloomberg) — The mayors of Hoboken, Ridgefield and Secaucus, New Jersey, and five rabbis were among 44 people charged by the ...
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Thursday Afternoon Open
Open | Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:07:14 pm PDT
Here’s your midday open thread...
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Disgusting Racist of the Day
US News | Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:30:33 pm PDT
Dr. David McKalip, a conservative activist and member of the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates, forwarded this disgusting picture to a tea party mailing list last Sunday, and was busted for it by Talking Points Memo: Conservative Activist Forwards Racist Pic Showing Obama As Witch Doctor. Words fail me. (Hat tip: ...
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Harry Reid: No Health Care Vote Until Fall
Politics | Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:53:22 am PDT
A big blow to Barack Obama’s attempt to rush the country into nationalized health care: Reid: No health care vote in Senate until fall. WASHINGTON — The top Democrat in the Senate says lawmakers won’t vote until after August on health care, a blow to President Barack Obama’s ambitious timetable. Senate ...
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Obama Plays a Race Card from the Bottom of the Deck
US News | Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:32:21 am PDT
Here’s audio of Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department, responding to Barack Obama’s statement that Cambridge police “acted stupidly” in the arrest of Professor Gates: Stg. James Crowley, Cambridge Police on WEEI. Crowley seems very credible. The President may have made a serious political mistake when he couldn’t resist ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:16:30 pm PDT
You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it’s going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it’s ...
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Nirthblogger Promotes Revolution
Weird | Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:22:47 pm PDT
One of the craziest Nirthers, Andrea Shea King (a writer for World Net Daily), is now openly promoting violent revolution, publishing a letter from a deranged listener to her Internet radio show: The Radio Patriot: LISTENER FEEDBACK. The reason we have had zero success and will continue to probably have ...
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Obama Press Conference 2
Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:51:17 pm PDT
Since the first thread is already over 500 comments, here’s another one to discuss Obama’s press conference. It would be nice if one of these reporters asked what happened to Obama’s campaign promise that nationalized health care would save each American about $2500 a year. That little promise seems to have ...
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Obama Press Conference
Politics | Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:02:56 pm PDT
Here’s a thread to discuss President Obama’s press conference on health care...
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GOP Politicians Pandering to Nirthers
Weird | Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:55:06 pm PDT
The insane conspiracy theory called the “Birther movement” is gaining support among Republican politicians. Now there’s actually a bill sponsored by Republicans that panders to these nuts. I hate it when I agree with Chris Matthews, but he’s right on this issue — this madness is embarrassing, self-destructive, and above ...
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Tour De France: Armstrong Slips to Fourth Place, Contador Widens Lead
Sports | Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:32:24 pm PDT
The Tour de France is heading into the final stretch, and Lance Armstrong is still within striking distance of the win — but he’ll have to really dig deep to surpass Astana teammate Alberto Contador, who is looking incredibly strong this year, rocketing away from the pack on difficult climbs: ...
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Long Island Muslim Convert Charged with Attacking US Base in Afghanistan
US News | Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:41:59 pm PDT
A 26-year old American man who converted to Islam at a Long Island mosque has been charged with joining Al Qaeda and taking part in a rocket attack on a US base in Afghanistan. A 26-year-old American-born Long Island man who traveled to Pakistan and trained in a Qaeda camp ...
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Graham Will Back Sotomayor
Politics | Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:21:04 am PDT
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham now says he’s going to support Sonia Sotomayor. WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he’ll vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, breaking with his party’s conservative leaders. The South Carolinian had hinted during Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings that he might back President Barack Obama’s first high ...
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Unclear on the Concept Watch
Middle East | Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:34:04 am PDT
I had to read this one twice to be sure I wasn’t imagining it: Netanyahu says West Bank barrier to stay for now. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected on Wednesday any notion he would order Israel’s barrier in the West Bank to be torn down in response ...
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Narcissist Spends Millions in Futile Attempt to Resurrect Reputation
Media | Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:53:51 am PDT
If Dan Rather had put a tiny fraction of the effort he’s expending on his lawsuit against CBS into verifying those fraudulent Bush National Guard documents, he might not be in this predicament: Rather Wins a Round in Lawsuit Against CBS. Dan Rather won significant victories Tuesday in his suit ...
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Photos from Michael Yon in Afghanistan
World | Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:28:46 am PDT
Michael Yon emailed to say he expects to be in combat by the time you read this; here’s his last peaceful dispatch for a while (he says), with lots of fascinating photographs: Some Photos and Captions.
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Klinghoffer Speaks for Maimonides
Science | Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:20:26 pm PDT
Discovery Institute shill David Klinghoffer is utterly without shame. When he isn’t blaming Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution for inspiring every genocidal dictator in human history, he’s claiming that legendary Jewish physician/philosopher Maimonides was into “intelligent design” creationism. There you have it: Maimonides was fighting the good intellectual fight for ...
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The Kindle Controversy in Detail
Technology | Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:12:36 pm PDT
Glenn Fleishman has a good article at TidBITS on the controversy over Amazon’s apparently Orwellian deletion of two George Orwell books from customers’ Kindles: Double Plus Ungoods: Amazon Unpublishes Orwell. Note: it doesn’t seem to have been publicized much, but Amazon has admitted they made a mistake with this move, and ...
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Jupiter Impact Photo
Science | Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:05:34 pm PDT
From the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, this infrared image shows the impact site where something huge slammed into Jupiter sometime in the last few days, with its relative size compared to Earth.
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Obama's Pseudo-Science Czar
Politics | Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:41:06 pm PDT
Here’s a report on another one of Barack Obama’s “czars” with a background of radical leftism and woo-woo quackery: Darwin Central: Obama’s Pseudoscience Czar. DC forum member El Goodo has done some excellent detective work on Obama’s so-called economic czars, wading through dirty pools that other so-called muckrakers refuse to ...
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In Depth: Operation Cast Lead and the Ethics of Just War
Middle East | Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:55:23 pm PDT
The journal Azure has a detailed and thoughtful examination of Operation Cast Lead and the Ethics of Just War by Israeli philosopher Asa Kasher, as the usual non-governmental organizations issue the usual reports accusing Israel of “war crimes.” On Saturday, December 27, 2008, after eight years of continuing rocket attacks ...
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Creationist Governor Featured Speaker at RNC Meeting
Politics | Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:56:32 am PDT
Governor Tim Pawlenty (R-Minnesota) is being touted as a frontrunner for the 2012 presidential election, and today it was announced that he’ll be a featured speaker at the Republican National Committee meeting in San Diego. Gov. Tim Pawlenty will address members of the Republican National Committee July 30 in San ...
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Jupiter Gets Hit
Science | Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:57:29 am PDT
Using his backyard telescope, Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley discovered that the planet Jupiter was recently struck by something very large — leaving an Earth-sized impact site: New NASA Images Indicate Object Hits Jupiter. Scientists have found evidence that another object has bombarded Jupiter, exactly 15 years after the first ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:27:14 pm PDT
The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time. — Arthur Conan Doyle
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We Got Mail!
Weird | Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:40:35 pm PDT
Let’s see what’s in our hate mail folder for today, shall we? 1) a Kindle hater (yes, really). 2) two Birth Certificate crackpots, enraged by my mockery of their obsession. 3) a Pat Buchanan fan. 4) a Robert Spencer fan. 5) a Nick Griffin (BNP) fan. 6) two emails from people enraged over the Heinous Ham ...
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Bosnian Serbs Convicted of Burning Muslims Alive
World | Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:11:25 pm PDT
Two Serbian cousins were convicted today of a series of gruesome, barbaric war crimes against Bosnian Muslims: Bosnian Serb pair jailed for burning Muslims alive. THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Bosnian Serb cousins Milan and Sredoje Lukic were convicted by the Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal on Monday of burning dozens of ...
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How Evolution Produces Large Developmental Changes
Science | Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:37:20 pm PDT
A team of scientists at Caltech has published a study that sheds new light on how major changes can occur through the process of natural selection: How Evolution Can Allow For Large Developmental Leaps. ScienceDaily (July 20, 2009) — How evolution acts to bridge the chasm between two discrete physiological ...
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Monday Night Open
Open | Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:21:54 pm PDT
The blessing of the turtles, the eggs lay on the lawn Paint a pretty picture for me to sit upon The calling of the rabbit, the falling of the hare The hat man then begins to play, a song is everywhere You want the obvious You’ll get the obvious Tell them Groucho said, you’re just another ...
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Onion Bought By Chinese
Humor | Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:28:51 pm PDT
The Onion News Network has been bought out by the Chinese, but thankfully it hasn’t affected their content. [Video]
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Big Brother Amazon? Not Really
Books | Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:09:58 pm PDT
You probably heard the reports that Amazon had unceremoniously deleted Kindle versions of George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 from customers’ devices. But it turns out there’s a little more to the story: the company who sold the books through the Kindle store did not have the rights to publish ...
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Randall Terry Threatens Violence if Health Care Pays for Abortion
US News | Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:23:51 pm PDT
I’m astounded that the National Press Club is apparently going to lend their podium to anti-abortion fanatic Randall Terry — so that he can threaten terrorism and “violent convulsions” if Obama’s health care plan pays for abortions: Healthcare, Abortion, and Potential Violence: ‘Let All Those in Government be Warned: They ...
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Cold War Heroes Beg Obama Not to Scrap Missile Defense
World | Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:35:32 pm PDT
Cold War heroes Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel, along with 20 other European leaders and intellectuals, have written an open letter to Barack Obama pleading with him not to cave in to Russia and give up on missile defense. [T]he thorniest issue may well be America’s planned missile-defense installations. Here ...
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Video: Rep. Mike Castle vs. the Nirthers
Politics | Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:31:35 am PDT
Republican Rep. Mike Castle faces an audience full of angry Nirthers. It’s beyond appalling how popular this insanity is with the GOP base. What the hell is wrong with these people? [Video] Also see: ‘Birther’ Movement Dogs Republicans
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Yon Returning to Combat
World | Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:27:04 am PDT
Michael Yon is going back into combat in Afghanistan, alongside the real anti-jihad activists — the US Marines.
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The Ham Scandal That Wasn't
Politics | Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:33:00 am PDT
Drudge Report has a big headline up, suggesting that the government spent over a million dollars to buy one 2 pound sliced ham. Fail. The references to “2 pound frozen ham sliced” are to the sizes of the packaging. Press reports suggesting that the Recovery Act spent $1.191 million to buy ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:53:11 pm PDT
I have suffered for my music. Now it’s your turn. — Neil Innes
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Pat Buchanan: It's All About the White Men
Politics | Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 6:35:05 pm PDT
Here’s Pat Buchanan, ranting about Sonia Sotomayor and making conservatives look wonderful again, in that special way he has. [Video] Maddow: Why do you think it is that of the 110 Supreme Court Justices we’ve had in this country, 108 of them have been white? Buchanan: Well, I think white men were ...
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Sunday Night Lounge
Private | Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 4:29:17 pm PDT
The Lizard Lounge is now open for a sanguine Sunday evening. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. This is a private thread; comments are ...
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Sunday Afternoon Shred: Kiko Loureiro, 'Enfermo'
Music | Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 3:12:50 pm PDT
Brazilian guitarist Kiko Loureiro can shred with the best of ‘em, as he proves in this video of the tune “Enfermo,” from the album No Gravity. [Video]
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Dr. No's Big Moment
Politics | Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 1:24:59 pm PDT
Oh no. Republicans embrace Ron Paul on domestic policy.
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Sunday Afternoon Open
Open | Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:55:03 pm PDT
Here’s an open thread — I’m noticing connectivity issues with Amazon and YouTube today. I wonder if something’s up, DDoS-wise?
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Tariq Ramadan Makes Progress in the Era of Hopenchange
US News | Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:53:15 am PDT
Islamist advocate Tariq Ramadan’s backers and supporters have been patiently working away at getting him into America for almost a decade, and last Friday a federal appeals court decided to allow him a new visa hearing. Apparently they believed Ramadan’s claim that he had no idea he was giving money to ...
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Free Republic Founder Calls for Revolution
Weird | Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:31:21 am PDT
Jim Robinson, founder of right wing website Free Republic, has decided he’s going to toss out the results of the last election, remove Barack Obama from office, repeal the 16th and 17th amendments to the US Constitution (and Roe v. Wade, of course), abolish a host of federal agencies, and ...
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Sanford: I'm Doing God's Work
Politics | Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 9:48:13 am PDT
In an op-ed published in several South Carolina newspapers, philandering Republican Governor Mark Sanford now says God wants him to stay on as Governor: Now and going forward. It’s in the spirit of making good from bad that I am committing to you and the larger family of South Carolinians ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:46:11 pm PDT
The large print giveth and the small print taketh away. — Tom Waits
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Clown Court
Video | Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 5:57:58 pm PDT
If you have any lurking clown-related phobias, this video clip from the new BBC series Psychoville is definitely not going to help. [Video]
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Where Does the Money Go?
Lifestyle | Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 5:31:17 pm PDT
An interesting graph of American spending habits (click the image for a larger version). (Via Sociological Images.)
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Onion: Mexico Builds Border Wall
Humor | Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 1:30:58 pm PDT
Onion International reports on a new wall being constructed on the US-Mexico border, to address a serious problem related to immigration policy. [Video]
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Can Haz Dancing Kitteh?
Images | Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 1:14:24 pm PDT
The masters at Worth1000.com demonstrate their mad photoshop skillz again in a contest called Jive Critters 4.
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Ron Paul: Troofer?
US News | Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:21:03 am PDT
An idiot from a “9/11 Truth” group cornered Ron Paul recently and asked why he hasn’t “come out about the truth about 9/11.” Paul’s answer: he has too much to do, and he can’t handle the controversy. This is the guy whose influence is growing in the GOP, to the point where ...
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New Photos of Apollo Landing Sites from Lunar Orbit
Science | Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 9:19:31 am PDT
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has sent back pictures of the landing sites of five Apollo moon missions; after 40 years in the airless environment, you can still see the tracks of the Apollo 14 astronauts, where they walked through the lunar dust to set up some scientific instruments: LRO Sees ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:17:33 pm PDT
Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb, like the sun; it shines everywhere. — William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
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Lame Excuse of the Week
Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:47:08 pm PDT
Robert Spencer is mixing it up with Michael J. Totten and Mary Madigan at Totten’s pad. Totten asks Spencer a good question about his announced participation in the “Pro-Koln” conference — a question I’ve brought up as well: If the nutjobs in Cologne did nothing but invite Pamela, why did they ...
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RIP, Walter Cronkite
Media | Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:29:30 pm PDT
Forty years ago, he was covering the moon landing of Apollo 11. Tonight, veteran CBS journalist Walter Cronkite is dead at the age of 92, after a protracted illness. [Video]
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Friday Night Music: Ben Folds, 'The Frown Song'
Music | Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:30:11 pm PDT
A great live in-studio performance of “The Frown Song,” from Ben Folds’ latest, Way to Normal. (Language warning: there are a couple of F-bombs, but funny ones.) [Video]
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Friday Afternoon Open
Open | Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:09:15 pm PDT
An open thread for a lazy, good for nothin’ Friday afternoon...
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Glenn Beck Remixed
Humor | Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:19:39 pm PDT
Hilarious remix of Glenn Beck’s latest freakout: [Video] Here’s the original recording — the sound of one head exploding.
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A Reply to Power Line's Paul Mirengoff on Geert Wilders
Opinion | Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:19:26 pm PDT
Paul Mirengoff at Power Line defends Geert Wilders against accusations that he’s a “fascist:” Who are the fascists in Europe? Read the whole thing for the context of Mirengoff’s argument (he quotes from an article at Brussels Journal, a Belgian blog connected to the far right Vlaams Belang that has published ...
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Video: Jakarta Hotel Bombing
World | Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:31:04 am PDT
Here’s an ABC News report on the bombings in Jakarta, Indonesia, with footage of one of the explosions from a hotel surveillance camera. [Video]
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IPT: Hizb Ut-Tahrir in America
US News | Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:11:05 am PDT
The Investigative Project has a report on shadowy Islamic supremacist group Hizb ut-Tahrir and their planned meeting this weekend in Chicago: Hizb Ut-Tahrir In America: Preaching Hate, Building A Caliphate. Hizb ut-Tahrir, (HT) the pro-jihadist organization meeting this weekend in suburban Chicago, has been waging a below-the-radar campaign to recruit ...
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Palin Twittering
Politics | Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:37:43 am PDT
Now you can keep up with Sarah Palin’s daily life by following her new personal Twitter site. I’ll stay in touch w/whomever wants via personal twtr site;launch July 26; in meantime it’s pleasure to update interested folks on State biz!
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New Report on the BNP Released
World | Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:02:01 am PDT
At Harry’s Place, Edmund Standing has a post about the release of his new report for the Center for Social Cohesion, on the white supremacist British National Party: The BNP and the Online Fascist Network. The report makes it very clear that recent efforts by the BNP to appear as if ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:15:02 pm PDT
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. — Thomas Jefferson
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Remnants of the Wall
Images | Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:44:15 pm PDT
What’s left of the Berlin Wall.
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Terror Attack in Jakarta
World | Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:15:08 pm PDT
Simultaneous bombing attacks at two hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia, have killed at least four people. JAKARTA, July 17 (Bernama) — Two explosions occurred in Ritz Carlton and Marriott hotels in Jakarta on Friday morning, killing at least four people and wounding tens of others, China’s Xinhua news agency reported quoting ...
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Thursday Evening Playlist
Music | Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 6:08:02 pm PDT
Some albums I bought recently at Amazon’s MP3 store, and highly recommend. Lots of different styles in this batch, from prog rock to African chants with banjo. The Amazon widget lets you listen to 30-second excerpts from any song on these albums, and if you click through and buy, the ...
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Totten: Arguing for Uncertainty (with Demagogues)
Middle East | Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:20:42 pm PDT
Michael J. Totten answers an attack from anti-Islam zealot Andrew Bostom: Arguing for Uncertainty. Andrew Bostom – pal of Robert Spencer and the deranged Pamela Geller – bizarrely accuses me of being an uninformed dogmatist for publishing a “roseate view” of Iraq, even though my article in question was dedicated ...
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Ahmadinejad: Iran Will 'Bring Down' the West
World | Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:04:08 pm PDT
Iran’s thug-in-chief said today that his new government is going to “bring down Western arrogance.” How’s that Unclenching Initiative working out, President Obama? TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s re-elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday his next government “would bring down the global arrogance,” signaling a tougher approach toward the West after ...
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Obama's Science Czar and 'Ecoscience' - Updates
Politics | Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:35:58 pm PDT
Zombie has an update for that post about “science czar” John Holdren and the book he co-authored with Paul and Anne Ehrlich in 1977. When I originally wrote and published this essay on July 10, I said: “Unfortunately, as far as I’ve been able to discover, Holdren has never disavowed the ...
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Sessions: GOP Won't Filibuster Sotomayor
Politics | Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:26:09 am PDT
Sen. Jeff Sessions (who has no earlobes, by the way) says the GOP won’t block the vote on Sotomayor’s nomination. Shortly before the committee concluded its questioning of Sotomayor, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the panel’s senior GOP member, told Sotomayor he would “look forward to you getting that vote” by ...
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Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings, Day 4: Live Stream
Politics | Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:37:53 am PDT
As we round the corner into day four of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings, even the Republicans on the committee are beginning to admit that they’ve got nothing. We’ve reached a point, here on Day 4 of the Sonia Sotomayor hearings, where some Republicans have acknowledged that when they sift through ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:17:17 pm PDT
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it— and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again— and that is well; but also she ...
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Amazon Finalizing Launch Date for British Kindle
Technology | Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:44:21 pm PDT
When I’ve posted my rave reviews of Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader (a device I use nearly as much as my computer), LGF readers in other countries have plaintively complained that it isn’t available outside the US — especially, in Canada and Britain. Well, there’s no word on Canadian availability yet, ...
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When Galaxies Collide
Science | Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:15:39 pm PDT
The Hubble Space Telescope isn’t the only orbiting observatory sending back incredible images from the depths of space; here’s a picture generated by the Chandra X-ray Observatory combined with optical imagery: a group of colliding galaxies known as “Stephan’s Quintet.” Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/E. O’Sullivan Optical: Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope/Coelum This beautiful image gives a ...
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Poll: Majority Expect Sotomayor to Be Confirmed
Politics | Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:38:36 am PDT
The latest Rasmussen poll shows 90% of voters expect Sonia Sotomayor to be confirmed. Following the first two days of confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, voters overwhelmingly expect her to be confirmed for the U.S. Supreme Court but remain divided as to whether she should be. Ninety percent (90%) now ...
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Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings, Day 3: Live Stream
Politics | Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:57:59 am PDT
Day three of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings has begun; here’s our live feed from Senate.gov, as the Republicans on the panel continue hammering away (a futile endeavor) at the “wise Latina” remark, and try to back Sotomayor into a corner on the abortion issue. [Live video moved to more recent post...] ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:12:04 pm PDT
Lousy human bastards! — Caesar, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
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Video: Graham Grills Sotomayor
Politics | Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:29:59 pm PDT
Here’s MSNBC’s video of Lindsey Graham grilling Sonia Sotomayor over her “wise Latina” comment in a speech to Duke University students. [Video]
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Tuesday Night Music: Zawinul Syndicate, 'Zansa'
Music | Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:30:13 pm PDT
The late great Joe Zawinul with his band at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 1997. A slightly different version of this tune, “Zansa,” is on the excellent concert album 75: Joe Zawinul, recorded shortly before Joe’s death. RIP, Joe, we miss you. [Video]
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Onion: Obama Axes Pentagon's New Tank
Humor | Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:58:28 pm PDT
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Headline of the Day
Weird | Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:17:33 pm PDT
Drunk badger disrupts traffic.
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Sotomayor Transcripts and Live Updates
Politics | Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:18:00 pm PDT
Andrew Malcolm and associates have been doing a great job of live-blogging the Sotomayor hearing at Top of the Ticket, including posting transcripts of Sen. Jon Kyl’s rambling, digressing, endless questions, which is above and beyond the call of duty: Sotomayor hearings: Graham comes out swinging. Here’s the live video stream ...
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Anti-Abortion Kooks Interrupt Sotomayor Hearing
Politics | Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:39:39 am PDT
Here we go; the extreme wing of the anti-abortion movement has been whipping itself into a lather over Sonia Sotomayor, and they apparently managed to sneak at least two people into the hearing: Second Antiabortion Heckler Interrupts Sotomayor Hearing. Another antiabortion activist disrupted the confirmation hearing of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, ...
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Saudis Cure Cancer
Weird | Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:10:39 am PDT
While we’re messing around with this silly Supreme Court nomination hearing in the US, over in Saudi Arabia they’re curing cancer with camel urine. Dr. Faten Abdel-Rahman Khorshid is responsible for one of the Kingdom’s greatest national achievements in the field of science for her work which began with the ...
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Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings: Live Stream
Politics | Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:17:34 am PDT
Here’s a live stream of the Sotomayor confirmation hearing; so far I still haven’t seen the evidence that she’s a sekrit radical judicial activist... [Live video moved to most recent post...]
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:21:50 pm PDT
Whether elected or appointed He considers himself the Lord’s annointed, And indeed the ointment lingers on him So thick you can’t get your fingers on him. — Ogden Nash, “The Politician”
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Totten to Spencer: We Are Not at War with Nouri Al-Maliki
Middle East | Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:46:18 pm PDT
Michael J. Totten calls out Robert Spencer for a particularly uninformed comment about Iraq: We Are Not at War with Nouri al-Maliki. Robert Spencer, founder and lead writer for Jihad Watch, has a bit of trouble telling the difference between friend and foe in Iraq and still thinks, despite everything, ...
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Monday Night Lounge
Private | Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:28:00 pm PDT
The Lizard Lounge is now open for a mindwarping Monday evening. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. This is a private thread; comments are ...
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Curmudgeon Goes Off, Phoebe Wins
Science | Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:54:50 pm PDT
A pretty good rant from The Sensuous Curmudgeon, triggered by a whiny complaint from Discovery Institute creationist David Klinghoffer (who’s upset because all the visitors to his blog “hate” him): Creationists: Crybabies & Nancy-Boys. Why don’t all of you anti-science theocrats find yourselves another political party — you’re destroying the ...
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Monday Afternoon Open
Open | Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:27:33 pm PDT
The midday open thread in its natural habitat...
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Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings: Opening Statement
Politics | Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:44:02 pm PDT
If you think Sonia Sotomayor is a judicial activist and radical leftist, you’re not going to find evidence for it in her opening statement: Sotomayor hearings: The judge’s own opening statement. In the past month, many Senators have asked me about my judicial philosophy. It is simple: fidelity to the ...
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Minnesota Somali-Americans Joining the Jihad
US News | Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:49:40 am PDT
Andrea Elliott of the New York Times has a good in-depth report on the disturbing number of Somali Muslim refugees living in Minnesota who have returned to Somalia to join the jihad: A Call to Jihad, Answered in America. In November, Mr. Hassan and two other students dropped out of ...
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Yon: Finding Lizards
World | Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:44:26 am PDT
Michael Yon is with the real anti-jihad activists (aka, the US and British military) in Afghanistan, and has another must-read report filled with photographs of a very productive lizard hunt: Searching for Kuchi & Finding Lizards.
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Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings Begin
Politics | Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:03:58 am PDT
Oh boy! Several days of political grandstanding and opportunistic pandering, masquerading as a “confirmation hearing!” I know you’re as excited as I am. Andrew Malcolm has the opening statements from the usual raft of blowhards: Sotomayor hearing: All senators’ opening statement texts: Leahy, Sessions, et al.
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:28:44 pm PDT
Elephants are contagious. — Paul Éluard
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Sunday Night Shred: Joe Satriani, 'Surfing With The Alien'
Music | Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 7:57:04 pm PDT
Live at The Grove in Anaheim, a classic Joe Satriani barn-burner in a clip from the DVD Satriani Live! [Video]
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Safari 4 New Version
Technology | Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 6:13:51 pm PDT
There’s a new release of Safari 4 (4.0.2) featuring improved stability in the “Nitro” Javascript engine and “the latest compatibility and security fixes” according to Apple: Apple - Downloads - Application Updates - Safari. I have been noticing some Javascript problems with the release version of Safari 4 - sometimes the ...
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American Library Association Panelists Refuse to Appear with Robert Spencer
US News | Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 3:22:05 pm PDT
An American Library Association panel discussion on Islam has been canceled, after three of the four panelists refused to participate with anti-Islam blogger Robert Spencer. On July 7th, a group of nine members sent the ALA an open letter regarding Robert Spencer’s participation. This led to the withdrawal of Dr. Marcia ...
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Texas Gets Another Creationist School Board Leader
US News | Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 1:03:47 pm PDT
Sure enough, just like clockwork, Governor Rick Perry (R-Texas) has appointed yet another activist religious fanatic to head the State Board of Education. The rumor going around was that he’d pick Cynthia Dunbar, who considers public education a “subtly deceptive tool of perversion,” but apparently that was a little much ...
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Palin Staying in Politics
Politics | Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:27:06 am PDT
After quitting her job as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin says she’s not leaving politics. WASHINGTON – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she is not only staying in politics once she leaves the governor’s office later this month, she’s jumping right back into the national fray. Palin tells the Washington Times ...
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Cheney Linked to Concealment of CIA Project
Politics | Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:48:25 am PDT
The news today on that increasingly weird CIA scandal is that the agency withheld information about a secret program from Congress for years on direct orders from Dick Cheney. The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:09:55 pm PDT
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be. — Bram Stoker
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Graphics Tutorial: A Glassy Green Button in Fireworks CS4
Technology | Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 8:03:19 pm PDT
Believe it or not, several people emailed because they noticed our new Web 2.0-style buttons for Paypal donations and subscriptions and our Amazon store, and wanted to know where the heck I got those nice glassy gray buttons. Well, I made them myself with Adobe Fireworks CS4. There are many ...
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Saturday Afternoon Open
Open | Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 3:46:35 pm PDT
Just an open thread, nothing more, nothing less ...
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Our Friends the Saudis
Weird | Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 1:26:05 pm PDT
In one of the world’s richest theocratic countries, an outbreak of pesky spirits leads to legal action. A family in Saudi Arabia is taking a “genie” to court, accusing it of theft and harassment, reports say. They accuse the spirit of threatening them, throwing stones and stealing mobile phones, Al Watan ...
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Palin Not So 'Rogue' After All
Politics | Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 1:10:13 pm PDT
A new book on the 2008 presidential campaign reveals that Sarah Palin’s (in)famous line about Barack Obama “palling around with terrorists” apparently came straight from the McCain camp: ’Pals Around With Terrorists’: Palin Wasn’t That Rogue, After All. On the subject of linking Obama to ex-Weatherman Bill Ayers, it turns ...
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BNP Leader Griffin: 'Islam is a Cancer Requiring Global Chemotherapy'
World | Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:05:55 am PDT
Nick Griffin, the white supremacist leader of the far right British National Party and newly elected Member of European Parliament, is in the news again (which was surely his intent) after he told a Channel 4 reporter that “Islam is a cancer, requiring global chemotherapy.” Griffin was echoing the words of ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:09:28 pm PDT
I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices. — Mark Twain
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Pope Surprises Obama with Booklet
Religion | Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:08:20 pm PDT
Barack Obama told Pope Benedict today that he wants to reduce abortions in the US. VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - President Barack Obama promised Pope Benedict on Friday that he would do everything possible to reduce the number of abortions in the United States, the Vatican said. Obama and Benedict held private ...
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Friday Night Music: Power and White, 'Jig Jazz'
Music | Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:11:17 pm PDT
Another great new video by Brendan Power and Andrew White, playing a tune called “Jig Jazz.” [Video]
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Friday Afternoon Open
Open | Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:19:37 pm PDT
Challenge your preconceptions, or they will challenge you. — Vulcan proverb
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Tour De France Heads Upward
Sports | Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:11:45 pm PDT
Today’s stage of the Tour de France started in Barcelona on a beautiful route that finished with one of the first real climbs, and this is where the eventual leaders started to take charge. Fabian Cancellara couldn’t hang with the climbers, and lost the yellow jersey: Feillu wins stage 7, ...
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Zombie: Obama's Science Czar and 'Ecoscience'
Politics | Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:04:13 am PDT
Zombie has a report on the book Ecoscience, co-authored by Barack Obama’s “science czar” John Holdren (with Paul Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich) in 1977, and its radical advocacy of mass sterilization and forced abortion to solve a looming overpopulation crisis — that never actually materialized: John Holdren, Obama’s Science Czar, ...
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Krauthammer: Obama Doesn't Understand the Damage He's Done
Opinion | Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:01:54 am PDT
Charles Krauthammer says, “Our president likes his plumage.” Obama says that his START will be a great boon, setting an example to enable us to better pressure North Korea and Iran to give up their nuclear programs. That a man of Obama’s intelligence can believe such nonsense is beyond comprehension. ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:04:59 pm PDT
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives. — Hedley Lamarr, Blazing Saddles
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Onion: Ground-Breaking Poll Technology Gives Pundits Real-Time Feedback
Humor | Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:42:13 pm PDT
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And Now for Some Evidence
Video | Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:18:10 pm PDT
From David Byrne’s weird little film True Stories (iTunes link). [Video] Here’s the movie at Amazon Video on Demand: True Stories.
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Texas Creationism Follies, the Sequel
Science | Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:24:43 pm PDT
When the Texas legislature kicked out creationist dentist Don McLeroy as head of the state’s Board of Education, I wrote: It’s almost certain that Perry will select another creationist; he did, after all, pick McLeroy not once but twice, even after McLeroy’s Biblical literalist views were notorious. There’s no shortage ...
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Thursday Afternoon Open
Open | Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:20:42 pm PDT
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. — Thomas Paine
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BNP Leader: The EU Needs to Sink a Few Immigrants' Boats
World | Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:53:49 am PDT
New member of European Parliament Nick Griffin, the Holocaust-denying leader of the white supremacist British National Party, is very concerned about “large numbers of sub-Saharan Africans dying” on boats trying to get into Europe. He’s so concerned about their health that he says the European Union should start sinking their ...
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What Happened to 'Creating Jobs?'
Politics | Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:50:36 am PDT
Andrew Malcolm reports that the Obama administration has quietly dropped “creating jobs” as the criteria for that $3.4-billion Energy Department project.
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Totten: The Future of Iraq, Part III
Middle East | Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:15:53 am PDT
Part three of Michael Totten’s must-read series on The Future of Iraq: The United States has basically won the war in Iraq. No insurgent or terrorist group can declare victory or claim Americans are evacuating Iraq’s cities because they were beaten. America’s most modest foreign policy objectives there have been ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:10:33 pm PDT
And over all the sky — the sky! far, far out of reach, studded, breaking out, the eternal stars. — Walt Whitman, Bivouac on a Mountain Side
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Wednesday Night Lounge
Private | Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:49:43 pm PDT
The Lizard Lounge is now open for a woolly Wednesday evening. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. This is a private thread; comments are ...
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IPT: Another 'Mainstream' Islamist Convention
US News | Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:25:36 pm PDT
Antisemitic conspiracies and hate speech were at the ISNA Convention — along with Barack Obama’s Senior Advisor for Public Engagement and International Affairs, Valerie Jarrett: ’Mainstream’ Islamist Convention Features Hate Speech and Hezbollah Defense.
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Kindle 2 Price Drop
Technology | Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:26:54 pm PDT
If you were intrigued by Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader but thought it was a bit expensive, there’s good news today as Amazon drops the price by $60 on the Kindle 2, to below $300. Amazon says it’s because they’re manufacturing a larger volume of the devices, decreasing the cost. The price ...
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Arizona State Senator: 'This Earth's Been Here 6,000 Years'
Science | Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:58:10 am PDT
Arizona Republican State Senator Sylvia Allen argues in favor of uranium mining on state land, because our planet has managed to last 6,000 years without any environmental laws, and look, we’re just fine. I can’t say enough how it’s time that we get beyond, and, and start focusing on the ...
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Iowahawk: Please Do Not Touch the Bureaucrats
Humor | Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:55:28 am PDT
Iowahawk announces the opening of an exclusive new salon: Please do not touch the bureaucrats. Music (throughout) Motley Crue, “Girls Girls Girls” Katherine Weymouth Hey fellas, after a hard week lobbying down on K Street, we know what you want. When the sun goes down on the capitol dome, you want to kick ...
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North Korean Cyber Assault
Technology | Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:18:16 am PDT
Since July 4th, major websites in the US and South Korea have been under attack by “a hostile group or government.” SEOUL, South Korea — Cyberattacks that have crippled the Web sites of several major American and South Korean government agencies since the July 4th holiday weekend appear to have ...
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What Security?
US News | Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:53:22 am PDT
Here’s our warm, fuzzy news of the day: Bomb parts smuggled into 10 federal buildings during test. WASHINGTON (CNN) — Plainclothes investigators sent to test security at federal buildings in four U.S. cities were successful in smuggling bomb components through guard posts at all 10 of the sites they visited, ...
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Is Kim Jong-Il Dying?
World | Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:36:17 am PDT
New pictures of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il strongly suggest that his health is rapidly deteriorating.
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:16:29 pm PDT
Some primal termite knocked on wood And tasted it, and found it good! And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today. — Ogden Nash, The Termite
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Tuesday Night Lounge
Private | Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:18:29 pm PDT
The Lizard Lounge is now open for another madcap Tuesday evening. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. This is a private thread; comments are ...
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Video: Evian Roller Babies
Video | Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:26:08 pm PDT
Possibly the best advertisement ever produced for French water. Tout petits et déjà incroyables! [Video]
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Armstrong a Fraction of a Second Away from Tour De France Lead
Sports | Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:15:23 pm PDT
Velonews has a good account of today’s team time trial at the Tour de France, in which Lance Armstrong and his Astana team won the stage and came within a fraction of a second of taking the yellow jersey. If anyone still doubted Lance could make a comeback, he ended ...
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Churchill's Suit Fails
US News | Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:56:38 pm PDT
The ruling came down today, and it looks like Ward “Little Eichmanns” Churchill is getting no money and no job. In a resounding defeat for ousted University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, a judge decided Tuesday to neither give the controversial professor his job back at CU nor award him ...
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LGF Palin Approval Polls
Politics | Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:32:35 am PDT
A couple of silly Internet polls, asking some Palinesque questions: [Poll] [Poll]
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Brits Foil Far Right Plot to Bomb Mosques
World | Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:09:55 am PDT
It hasn’t gotten much notice in US media, but last week British police foiled an international plot by far right groups to smuggle weapons into Britain and launch attacks on mosques. AN ALLEGED Neo Nazi plot to flood Britain with guns and explosives has been foiled by anti terror police ...
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Totten Interviews Goldberg
Middle East | Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:20:52 am PDT
Michael Totten talks with the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg about The Real Quagmire in the Middle East. MJT: You have talked to Hamas people. Should the Israelis or Americans talk to them? Goldberg: I don’t know what they’d get out of it. MJT: What did you get out of it when you did ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:23:37 pm PDT
Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. — Spike Milligan
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Bert and Ernie: Brutal
Humor | Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:58:27 pm PDT
If the previous video was too mellow and hypersensitive for you ... Bert and Ernie go BRUTAL. [Video]
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Monday Night Music: Power and White, 'Greenstone Waters'
Music | Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:57:17 pm PDT
Brendan Power (chromatic harmonica) and Andrew White (acoustic guitar) do a beautiful instrumental tune called “Greenstone Waters.” [Video] Also see: Power & White on MySpace Music.
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New Dinos Down Under
Science | Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:19:54 pm PDT
The Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum and Queensland Museum have announced some new dinosaur finds — and these are big ones: New Dinosaurs! WINTON: Premier Anna Bligh today announced the discovery of three new species of Australian dinosaur discovered in a prehistoric billabong in Western Queensland. ... “The dinosaurs have been ...
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Palin's Attorney Threatening Lawsuits
Politics | Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:51:46 pm PDT
The Washington Post has an open letter from Sarah Palin’s attorney (PDF), threatening to sue Alaskan blogger Shannyn Moore and several media sources: To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as “fact” that Governor Palin resigned because she is “under federal investigation” ...
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Sen. Cornyn Booed, Called a 'Traitor' at Austin Tea Party
US News | Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:56:26 am PDT
When Sen. John Cornyn took the stage at the July 4th Tea Party in Austin, Texas, he was booed and called a “traitor” and “the problem,” because he voted for the Wall Street bailout last year. [Video] UPDATE at 7/6/09 11:03:20 am: Apparently, at the tea party in Washington DC there were plenty ...
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Britain's New Intelligence Chief Tied to Holocaust Denier
World | Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:32:18 am PDT
The wife of Britain’s new’s MI6 foreign intelligence chief, Sir John Sawers, published intimate photos and family details on Facebook. And the security breach isn’t the worst thing about this story — because her entries on Facebook also revealed that Sawers’ brother-in-law is a friend of notorious Holocaust denier David Irving. ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 11:29:58 pm PDT
I love child things because there’s so much mystery when you’re a child. When you’re a child, something as simple as a tree doesn’t make sense. You see it in the distance and it looks small, but as you go closer, it seems to grow — you haven’t got a ...
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What If They Gave a Tea Party and Nobody Came?
Politics | Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:27:30 pm PDT
Regular readers probably know that I’m not the biggest fan of the “tea party” demonstrations, but I was surprised to see so little media coverage of the July 4th events. Here’s a thread to discuss the implications...
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Daisy in Your Face
Images | Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 6:04:39 pm PDT
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High Res Photos from the Moon
Science | Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 2:41:44 pm PDT
The first crystal clear images from the high resolution cameras on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have been released, showing an area near the Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds): NASA - LRO’s First Moon Images.
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Rove and Huckabee Puzzled by Palin
Politics | Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 11:01:00 am PDT
Smiling theocratic backbiter Mike Huckabee says Palin’s resignation doesn’t make sense. Karl Rove is also less than enthusiastic. Part of her explanation for resigning — that she was dogged by critics who cost her state millions in legal fees — will be a liability for her if she seeks the White ...
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Biden: Palin's Not a Victim
Politics | Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:00:01 am PDT
Vice President Joe Biden says Sarah Palin is no victim. Vice President Biden rejected Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s complaint that she was the victim of political blood sport yesterday - a day after she stunned the nation with her abrupt resignation. Asked if he agreed with Palin’s contention, Biden told ABC’s George ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 11:23:08 pm PDT
I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for. — Thornton Wilder
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Saturday Night Music: XTC, 'Dear God'
Video | Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 8:26:06 pm PDT
A classic XTC song from the Todd Rundgren-produced Skylarking. [Video]
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National Geographic's July 4th Special
Video | Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 5:53:45 pm PDT
It’s pretty cool that National Geographic is putting full-length shows on YouTube with minimal advertising, and allowing embedding. Lots of interesting stuff on fireworks in this one... [Video]
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The LGF Amazon Store
Lifestyle | Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 2:34:11 pm PDT
Little Green Footballs now has its very own, shiny new Amazon Associate Store, with a button at the top right of the page that takes you directly to the Shopping Zone. This is one of the tools Amazon makes available to members of their associates program; it creates a little LGF-branded ...
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Ed Rollins: Palin a 'Shooting Star Crashing to Earth'
Politics | Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 11:45:57 am PDT
Republican strategist Ed Rollins says Sarah Palin has made a big mistake: Palin A ‘Shooting Star Crashing To Earth’? On “The Early Show Saturday Edition,” Rollins, who headed up former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee’s 2008 White House run, told co-anchor Erica Hill that Palin’s Friday news conference “raised a lot ...
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Tour De France Starts in Monaco
Sports | Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 11:26:12 am PDT
The 2009 Tour de France opened today, with a time trial in Monaco. And yes, Lance Armstrong was there, riding with the Astana team — he came in tenth, 40 seconds behind winner Fabian Cancellara. The BBC has a blow by blow account of today’s race here, and a story with ...
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Happy Independence Day
History | Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 10:11:01 am PDT
Happy 233rd birthday, America, and happy Independence Day to all LGF readers!
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:22:19 pm PDT
How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don’t have to like it but we can at least recognize its ...
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Dr. Tiller's Murderer Still Advocating Via the US Mail
US News | Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:37:12 pm PDT
According to ABC News, Scott Roeder (the fanatic suspected in the murder of Dr. George Tiller), has been using snail mail from his jail cell to stay in touch with the extremist anti-abortion network: Abortion Doc Murder Suspect Advocates Via Mail. A man charged with shooting a prominent Kansas doctor ...
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Onion Reviews Innovative Wearable Feeding Apparatus
Humor | Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:10:18 pm PDT
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Friday Night Lounge
Private | Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:42:32 pm PDT
The Lizard Lounge is now open for another wacky Friday evening. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. This is a private thread; comments are ...
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Shocka: Palin Resigns As Alaska Governor
Politics | Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:34:37 pm PDT
Initial reports were that Sarah Palin was planning not to run for re-election, but in a surprise move today she announced she’s resigning as Governor of Alaska. ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office in a few weeks, she said during a news conference at her Wasilla ...
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CBS: Palin Emails Show Infighting With Staff
Politics | Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:17:19 pm PDT
CBS has obtained internal McCain-Palin campaign emails that show a lot of infighting between Sarah Palin and campaign staffers. Internal campaign e-mails exchanged three weeks before Election Day offer a rare look at just how frustrated then Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin had become with the manner in which ...
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WSJ: Franken Stole the Election
Politics | Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:27:21 am PDT
The Wall Street Journal’s editors weigh in on Al Franken’s Senate win: The ‘Absentee’ Senator. The Minnesota Supreme Court yesterday declared Democrat Al Franken the winner of last year’s disputed Senate race, and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman’s gracious concession at least spares the state any further legal combat. The unfortunate ...
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Video: Sarychev Peak Eruption from Space
Science | Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:19:45 am PDT
An incredible 3D image captured by an astronaut in the International Space Station as it passed over the Sarychev Peak volcanic eruption on June 12, 2009. [Video] Astronaut photograph ISS020-E-9048 was acquired on June 12, 2009, with a Nikon D2XS digital camera fitted with a 400 mm lens, and is provided ...
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Iran Intends to Try British Embassy Employees
World | Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:01:30 am PDT
The Iranian thugocracy is holding three British Embassy employees arrested last weekend during the election protests, and a senior cleric says they are going to be put on trial. A senior Iranian cleric said today that several employees of the British Embassy in Tehran arrested in recent days would be ...
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Russia Allows Afghanistan Flyovers
World | Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:53:55 am PDT
This is a welcome development, but I’m sure Putin has his own reasons for agreeing to it: Russia Opens Route for U.S. to Fly Arms to Afghanistan. MOSCOW — The Russian government has agreed to allow American troops and weapons bound for Afghanistan to fly over Russian territory, providing an ...
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Krauthammer: The Ricci Case and Affirmative Action
Opinion | Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:49:06 am PDT
Charles Krauthammer on The Meaning of the Ricci Case. The major conundrum of the civil rights age remains. The 14th Amendment bans discrimination on the basis of race. But the Civil Rights Act, which bans “disparate impact” discrimination — procedures (such as exams) that yield racially unbalanced results — affirmatively ...
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And Now for a Baby Sumatran Orangutan
Images | Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:29:41 pm PDT
This Sumatran Orangutan inflicts its ineffable cuteness upon you, courtesy of ZooBorns.
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6 New Personality Disorders Caused by the Internet
Humor | Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:02:41 pm PDT
The Internet makes people crazy. We all know this.
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Major Military Campaign in Afghanistan
World | Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:21:20 pm PDT
A massive military offensive is under way in Afghanistan against the Taliban. NAWA, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S. Marines suffered their first casualties of a massive new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic gunbattles along 55 miles of Taliban-controlled heartland in southern Afghanistan. One Marine was killed and several others ...
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Images | Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:13:52 pm PDT
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The Washington Post 'Salon'
Media | Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:48:33 am PDT
Oh brother. The Washington Post was apparently planning to sell access to top Obama officials and other VIPs, at a price of $25,000 to $250,000 a pop, in a “salon program” at the private home of CEO Katharine Weymouth. The Washington Post has long prided itself on its access to ...
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Arab Fists Still Clenched
Middle East | Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:17:12 am PDT
Imagine my surprise; Barack Obama’s bold new initiative for Arab countries to normalize relations with Israel is getting nowhere. The U.S. administration has not been successful in securing commitments from Arab countries to take steps toward normalizing relations with Israel, a senior source in Jerusalem said Wednesday. The source said U.S. ...
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North Korea Launches Four Missiles
World | Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:12:02 am PDT
As North Korea continues preparations for a long-range ballistic missile test, possibly this weekend, today they test-fired four short-range missiles that apparently landed in the China Sea. Reports say these were ground-to-ship missiles; this bit of saber-rattling is probably intended as a threat to South Korea.
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Sanford: Dog About Town
Politics | Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:16:18 am PDT
More of the Mark Sanford story’s leaking out, and it’s just not looking any better for the philandering creationist governor: Sanford, like a man in love, gushes about his ‘soul mate,’ confesses to other encounters. Crying at times and clearly wearing his emotions on his sleeve, the two-term governor also ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:08:53 pm PDT
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. — Arthur C. Clarke
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God Said, Don't
Politics | Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:34:02 pm PDT
Joe the Plumber had a chat with the Almighty, and the word came down from on high: “Don’t run for office, Joe.” Asked if he has plans to run for public office, he replied, “I hope not. You know, I talked to God about that and he was like, ‘No.’” He ...
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Wednesday Night Music: Pat Metheny Trio, 'Lone Jack'
Music | Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:25:47 pm PDT
Pat Metheny with Christian McBride (bass) and Antonio Sanchez (drums), tearing through a tune called “Lone Jack,” from the album, Pat Metheny Group. [Video]
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New Gallup Poll: More Americans See Democratic Party As 'Too Liberal'
US News | Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:59:54 pm PDT
A new Gallup poll has some interesting results; this year the number of Americans who described the Democratic Party’s views as “too liberal” increased to a historic high mark (46%), putting it slightly ahead of the number who say the Republican Party is “too conservative” (43%). However, it’s not great news ...
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Tech Note: Daily Format
Technology | Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:17:04 pm PDT
For years, the LGF front page has contained the last 3 to 5 days worth of posts, which can result in rather large pages depending on the content in the posts. I’m experimenting today with a single day’s worth of posts on the front page, to cut the size considerably ...
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JPost: Iran Hanging Mousavi Supporters
World | Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:43:23 pm PDT
The Jerusalem Post cites unconfirmed reports from Iran that the regime has begun hanging supporters of Mousavi. As the Iranian authorities warned the opposition on Tuesday that they would tolerate no further protests over the disputed June 12 presidential elections, a report emerged of the hangings of six supporters of ...
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Onion: New Green Menu Has No Natural Ingredients
Humor | Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:11:28 pm PDT
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Obama Health Care Town Hall Meeting
Health | Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:19:37 am PDT
Here’s a thread to discuss Barack Obama’s town hall meeting promoting his health care plans, now under way in Annandale, Virginia ... YouTube is streaming the meeting live.
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McKinney Arrested By Israel, Appears on Hate Radio
Moonbats | Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:46:53 am PDT
One of the craziest moonbat politicians in the US, Cynthia McKinney, has been arrested again for trying to break Israel’s blockade of Hamas: Israel navy intercepts boat with ex-U.S. Rep. McKinney. JERUSALEM (CNN) — The Israeli navy took control of a boat that violated an Israeli blockade and crossed into ...
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Beck and Scheuer: Only an Attack By Osama Bin Laden Can Save America
Video | Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:50:47 am PDT
In this clip from the Glenn Beck Comedy Hour, former CIA agent (and complete wacko) Michael Scheuer says the only thing that can save America from illegal immigration is for “Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States.” Good grief. Beck, of course, nods and agrees ...
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Firefox 3.5
Technology | Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:36:39 am PDT
Firefox 3.5, a major update, has been released into the wild.
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:12:56 pm PDT
Which statement seems more true: (1) I have a brain. (2) I am a brain. — Douglas Hofstadter
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