LGF Archives: September 2009
NY Post: Lecture Buyers Not Buying Palin
Politics | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:57:42 pm PDT
The New York Post reports that Sarah Palin isn’t having much luck on the lecture circuit. After quitting as governor of Alaska in July, Palin signed with the top-notch Washington Speakers Bureau, which also reps George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Condoleezza Rice, hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger, LA Dodgers manager ...
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Tim Blair Goes Cherry-Picking
Blogosphere | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:17:55 pm PDT
Tim Blair tries to play “gotcha” by searching through LGF’s archives: CHANGE. Here’s his post, which he doesn’t seem to feel needs any further explanation: Then. Now. The problem with this kind of context-free smear job, Tim, is that you could just as easily have chosen this LGF post for your terse ...
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Rifqa Bary and the Religious Right
Religion | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:05:38 pm PDT
Rifqa Bary, the 17-year old girl raised as a Muslim who converted to Christianity and ran away from home, claiming her parents were going to murder her, suddenly turned up on a conference call a few days ago, led by Shirley Dobson, wife of Focus on the Family’s James Dobson, ...
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Wednesday Afternoon Music: Dire Straits, 'Brothers in Arms'
Music | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:51:30 pm PDT
From Dire Straits’ classic album Brothers in Arms, this is the video for one of Mark Knopfler’s most moving songs. [Video]
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Robert Stacy McCain's Latest Excuse
US News | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:55:18 pm PDT
David Weigel lets Robert Stacy McCain talk: Robert Stacy McCain Responds to Gawker, Defends Palin Collaborator Lynn Vincent. Of course he tosses out some insults; that’s his modus operandi when called out on his racist friends and statements. But we also get yet another attempted explanation for his ugly comment about interracial ...
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Friedman: The Right is Going Dangerously Crazy
Opinion | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:03:31 am PDT
Thomas Friedman draws some disturbing parallels between present day America, with a right wing going absolutely nuts, and Israel in the administration of Yitzhak Rabin: Where Did ‘We’ Go? I was in Israel interviewing Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin just before he was assassinated in 1995. We had a beer in ...
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Bad Craziness at Newsmax: Obama Risks a Domestic Military Intervention
Weird | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:03:51 am PDT
Newsmax columnist John L. Perry published this article at the site yesterday, and it’s apparently been tossed down the memory hole. For obvious reasons. This is the original URL; it now redirects to Newsmax’s front page. But unfortunately for Newsmax and their attempt to cover it up, Google’s cache still has a copy: ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:23:47 pm PDT
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Sarah Palin's Book Ghostwritten by Associate of White Supremacist McCain
Politics | Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:17:40 pm PDT
Sarah Palin’s soon-to-be-released book was ghostwritten by Lynn Vincent. Who’s Lynn Vincent? She’s the co-author of a book with white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain. Vincent is also a credited author on “Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party,” a take-down of the Democrats co-written by conservative author ...
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Evolution Street Is One Way Only
Science | Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:15:28 pm PDT
Evolutionary biologists have long wondered whether it was possible for evolution to reverse direction; in other words, whether the proteins that make up an organism could “devolve” back to a previous shape or purpose. Carl Zimmer has an interesting piece on new research that strongly suggests evolution is a one-way ...
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Another GOP Creationist with Presidential Hopes
Politics | Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:26:13 pm PDT
You know, I don’t think we have enough anti-science homophobic religious fanatic creationists in the running for the 2012 GOP nomination for President. We can always use another; for example: Rick Santorum. Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is well aware his forthcoming visit to Iowa will encourage presidential speculation, and ...
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Dan Rather's Suit Against CBS Tossed Out
US News | Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:22:40 pm PDT
Dan “Fake Documents” Rather is not having a good day: Appeals court tosses Dan Rather’s $70M suit against CBS. Bad news for Dan Rather: His $70 million lawsuit against CBS is no more. In a 19-page decision made public Tuesday, a state appeals court dismissed the legendary newsman’s suit against CBS. ...
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Breaking: Pacific Tsunami Watch After 7.9 Earthquake Near Samoa
World | Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:35:57 am PDT
A huge earthquake has taken place near the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific, and Hawaii is under a tsunami alert: Magnitude 7.9 - SAMOA ISLANDS REGION.
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Video: How to Know if You're Living Under Nazism
Politics | Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:28:01 am PDT
“Conservative” speaker Kitty Werthmann has long been a fixture on Alex Jones’ insane conspiracy radio show and last weekend she made a special appearance at the “How To Take Back America Conference,” telling her audience to stock up on guns and ammunition (applause, applause) because Barack Obama is turning ...
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Inspector Dan Has a New Theory
Blogosphere | Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:23:22 am PDT
Dan Riehl continues spinning off his weird, creepy fantasies about murdered census worker Bill Sparkman. He’s actually had an email exchange with a trained investigator who agrees with him that Sparkman just might have been a child predator — and may not even have been hanged at all: Riehl World View: ...
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Iran's Manhattan Project Rushing Ahead
World | Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:18:06 am PDT
With each missile test, Iran’s capability to deliver nuclear weapons is increasing. And with this new announcement today, we see that they’ve been carefully analyzing the best ways to protect their nuclear development sites, even if Israel launches a surprise attack: Iran put nuclear site near base in case of ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:18:01 pm PDT
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Monday Night Music: Tom Waits, 'What's He Building in There?'
Music | Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:33:15 pm PDT
From Tom Waits’ classic album Mule Variations, a little excursion into paranoia. [Video] Dedicated to the right wing blogosphere.
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Outrageous Outrage of the Day!
US News | Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 5:13:24 pm PDT
Once again, the Obama-Hitler thing is corrupting the minds of poor, innocent, helpless children, brainwashing them into robotic commie drones with the power of his indoctro-beams. These children and their parents thought they were going to the White House to take part in an inspiring event that they’d remember their ...
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Monday Afternoon Lounge
Private | Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:31:22 pm PDT
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a mordant Monday afternoon. 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. That opens a ...
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Secret Service Investigates Facebook Assassination Poll
US News | Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:19:30 am PDT
A poll posted on Facebook with more than 700 responses (now apparently removed) asked “Should Obama Be Killed?” The Secret Service is investigating. Bad, bad craziness is coming out into the open more and more, encouraged by GOP politicians and right wing radio hosts, pandering to and inflaming the most extreme elements. ...
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Dan Riehl Calls Murdered Census Worker a 'Child Predator'
Blogosphere | Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:30:14 am PDT
Dan “black kids fear me” Riehl is speculating that Bill Sparkman, the census worker found murdered in Kentucky, was a child predator. Yes, really. His evidence? He don’t got to show you no steenking evidence! All he knows is that the murder wasn’t committed by anyone on his side — so why not ...
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Social Con Extremists Tightening Their Hold on the GOP
Politics | Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:31:15 am PDT
At the “How to Take Back America” conference last week, attended by Republican leaders including Mike Huckabee, Steve King, and Michele Bachmann, speakers railed against the “Marxist and/or Nazi dictatorship” of President Obama, and promoted a full raft of far right conspiracy theories. Following the Values Voters Summit the previous ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Images | Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:10:56 pm PDT
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Anti-Abortion Activists: Tiller's Church 'Brought Damnation On Themselves'
US News | Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:23:35 pm PDT
They encouraged and applauded his murder, but anti-choice fanatics aren’t finished with Dr. George Tiller yet. Now the leader of the domestic terrorist group calling itself the “Army of God” has sent a letter to the church Tiller attended, telling pastors that they “brought damnation on themselves.” A Virginia anti-abortion activist ...
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Video: Putting Faith In Its Place
Science | Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 2:51:48 pm PDT
I’m glad to see QualiaSoup back in business at YouTube; his videos are some of the most creative presentations of logical and scientific concepts I’ve seen. This one takes a close look at the meaning of “faith.” [Video] (Hat tip: Thanos.)
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The Door Opens - Update: The Door Closes
Open | Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:49:50 am PDT
Here’s a midday open thread, with open registration for a limited time. The ‘Register’ link is at the top of the left sidebar. Read all the rules before you register, and commit them to memory. The short version: %%LIST=Don’t register with a proxy. Don’t register with a throwaway email address. Don’t register more than ...
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Sunday Morning Music: Keith Jarrett Trio, 'So Tender'
Music | Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:05:32 am PDT
A masterful performance of “So Tender,” by the most telepathic jazz trio in history, Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack Dejohnette. Keith’s intro is stunningly beautiful. This tune is on the DVD Standards in Japan. [Video]
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Riots on Temple Mount and in Jerusalem
Middle East | Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:06:05 am PDT
Violence broke out this morning on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, when Muslim protesters began shouting and throwing rocks at a small group of Jews who entered the compound. Twelve policemen and 15 rioters were wounded Sunday in riots on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and later in the Old ...
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What Was Once Left Is Now Right
Media | Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 8:30:22 am PDT
Remember during the Bush administration, when the far left would frequently get themselves all worked up with fantasies that Bush was about to declare martial law under a pretext like the Reichstag fire? Well, it’s now come full circle, as loony right radio host Michael Savage rants about martial law and ...
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Video: Ex-Jihadis
Video | Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:06:20 am PDT
Here’s a video clip from the Israeli Defense Forces, showing what happened September 25, 2009, when Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza prepared to launch rockets into Israel to attempt random murder, unaware that their every move was being watched. [Video] In the above video an Unmanned Air Vehicle captures two Islamic ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:07:00 pm PDT
I love mankind; it’s people I can’t stand. — Linus Van Pelt
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Book of the Week
Science | Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 6:07:33 pm PDT
I got this book for my beloved Kindle a few days ago: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins. I’m about a quarter of the way into it, and I already have no hesitation about recommending it highly to anyone interested in arming themselves with the ...
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Dark Charges from Cardinal Mahony's Inner Circle
Religion | Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 3:24:58 pm PDT
Some very disturbing information has come to light in the long-running scandal of child molestation in the Los Angeles diocese of the Roman Catholic Church. A former vicar has testified in a civil case that Cardinal Roger Mahony specifically instructed him not to report allegations of sexual misconduct by a ...
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Onion: Little Boy Heroically Shoots Burglar
Humor | Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 2:38:32 pm PDT
Some Onion parodies of the news media are more savage than others. This one is brutal. [Video]
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Saturday Afternoon Open
Open | Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 1:16:05 pm PDT
Here’s the traditional midday open thread, with extra-special Glenn Beck video. The hero of the right wing, at his very best. [Video]
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Nirthers on Television
Weird | Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:29:03 am PDT
Unbelievable. Now the Christian far right is heavily promoting the mind-bogglingly dim Birther conspiracy theory, with an IQ-destroying infomercial produced by Live Prayer (the site has a picture of President Obama with the caption “God’s Enemy”) and Gary Kreep (yes, really!) of the United States Justice Foundation. For a mere $30.00 ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:15:47 pm PDT
A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now. — Mort Sahl
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James Inhofe's Climate Denier Mystery Tour
Environment | Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:11:59 pm PDT
Rep. James Inhofe (R-OK), a far right politician with ties to the Dominionist movement, on record comparing environmentalists to the Third Reich and the EPA to the Gestapo, is organizing a junket of climate change deniers to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December: Inhofe: I’m Bringing ...
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Update: Murdered Census Worker Found Naked, Bound with Duct Tape
US News | Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:49:34 pm PDT
This pretty much rules out the “suicide” hypothesis: Hanged Census Worker Found Naked, Bound. BIG CREEK, Ky. (AP) — A part-time census worker found hanging in a rural Kentucky cemetery was naked, gagged and had his hands and feet bound with duct tape, said an Ohio man who discovered the ...
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Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann: A Match Made in Kookistan
US News | Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:01:10 pm PDT
Two of the craziest right wing politicians in America, together at last to dispense a double dose of burning stupidity: Reps Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul speak tonight at U. A student town hall at the University of Minnesota tonight will feature two high-profile Republicans — 6th District Rep. Michele ...
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We Got Mail!
Opinion | Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:03:19 pm PDT
Following our earlier post about Ron Dermer, senior adviser to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his praise for LGF, an admirer in New York City by the name of Susan Saxe emailed the following note of appreciation: The Jews don’t want your sorry liberal ass defending them anymore, so ...
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Judge Napolitano's Racist Friend on Fox News
US News | Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:01:07 pm PDT
This is where Fox News has been headed for a long time, and now they’ve finally arrived: Judge Andrew Napolitano and racist paleocon Lew Rockwell openly advocating that states secede from the Obama “regime” in Washington. [Video]
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I Win!
Blogosphere | Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:39:36 pm PDT
Looks like I’ve replaced Andrew Sullivan as the most hated blogger, which is quite an accomplishment. I’d like to thank the wonderful folks who voted me the sixth most despised “right wing” figure, equally as repulsive as Pat “Hitler wasn’t so bad” Buchanan, and much more disgusting than Ron Paul, ...
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Israel Considers Giving Bloggers Journalist Credentials
Blogosphere | Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:56:43 am PDT
Here’s some unexpected praise that made my morning, in a Jerusalem Post article on an Israeli proposal to give some bloggers journalist credentials. The Government Press Office (GPO) is considering granting leading bloggers press credentials equal to those of journalists and reporters. Ron Dermer, a senior adviser to the prime minister, ...
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Illinois Man Arrested in Alleged Bomb Plot
US News | Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:22:37 am PDT
In Illinois, another plot to commit mass murder foiled long in advance by authorities: Alleged would-be bomber described as humble, polite. Over the two years that authorities tracked Michael C. Finton, accused Thursday of trying to bomb Springfield’s federal courthouse, they gave Finton plenty of chances to drop the idea. ...
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Jordanian Arrested in Dallas in Alleged Skyscraper Bomb Plot
US News | Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:07:49 am PDT
A 19-year old Jordanian citizen was arrested yesterday in Dallas, after planting an inactive car bomb near a skyscraper; the authorities were on to him long before he tried to carry out his plot: Man arrested in alleged attempt to bomb Dallas skyscraper. Hosam Maher Husein Smadi has repeatedly voiced ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:17:39 pm PDT
If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer’s head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build on our fond melodies in his tomorrow, I have not labored in vain. — W. C. Handy
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Origin of Species - The Creationist Version
Science | Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:53:23 pm PDT
Former teen idol Kirk Cameron and his idiot creationist pal Ray Comfort are distributing a new edition of Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of Species” — with an introduction “explaining” how Darwin’s scientific theory led directly to Adolf Hitler, among other mind-bendingly dumb creationist tropes. Darwin is spinning in his grave like ...
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Thursday Night Lounge
Private | Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:29:52 pm PDT
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a thermonuclear Thursday 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. That opens a ...
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Glenn Beck Lies About LGF
Media | Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:39:11 pm PDT
Since Glenn Beck just launched an attack on me on his comedy show (right after a Ron Paul-like isolationist rant about bringing all US troops home now), here’s the text of the post I put up last night: Glenn Beck: Frog Killer. This might have been another Glenn Beck stunt, ...
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Video: World Builder
Video | Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:16:39 pm PDT
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Glenn Beck Refuses to Define 'White Culture'
Media | Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:52:32 am PDT
One of the statements that has gotten Glenn Beck in trouble was his rant against President Obama on Fox News’ Fox and Friends, in which he said Obama is “a racist” with a “deep-seated hatred for white culture.” In her interview with Beck, Katie Couric read a question from a ...
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Netanyahu at the UN
World | Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:33:05 am PDT
Benjamin Netanyahu is calling out the United Nations: “Will you stand with Israel or will you stand with the terrorists?” It looks like quite a few delegates walked out on his speech. The speech is live on CNN. Here’s a thread to discuss... UPDATE at 9/24/09 3:11:00 pm: The speech has been posted at ...
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ACORN Sues Filmmakers for Violating Baltimore Law
US News | Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:04:53 am PDT
Embattled leftist community organizing group ACORN has filed a lawsuit against the conservative activists who staged a sting operation against them: ACORN Sues Over Secret Video, Claiming Wiretapping Violation. ACORN, the community organizing group embarrassed recently in a video sting, said Wednesday that it needs to determine whether it has ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:21:14 pm PDT
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. — Abraham Lincoln
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Report: Census Worker Found Hanged with 'Fed' Scrawled on Body
US News | Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:45:58 pm PDT
There’s not enough information yet to say for sure what was behind this killing, so let’s not jump to conclusions. But the description of the circumstances and the timing (around the time of the Washington DC tea party) raises a strong suspicion that anti-government sentiment may have been the motivation: ...
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The Bear Turns
World | Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:47:28 pm PDT
What does it take to get Russia on board with sanctions against Iran? Russia links Iran sanctions to US missile change. NEW YORK – With a diplomatic wink and nod, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev opened the door Wednesday to backing potential sanctions against Iran as a reward to President Barack Obama’s ...
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VDH on the Anti-LGF Feeding Frenzy
Blogosphere | Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:35:47 pm PDT
This heartening note of support was posted today by Victor Davis Hanson at a site to which I won’t link, because they feature the writing of white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain. Little Green What? Some bloggers sent me postings the other day about Charles Johnson’s Little Green Footballs website, ...
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Glenn Beck: Frog Killer
Media | Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:11:12 pm PDT
This might have been another Glenn Beck stunt, designed to deliberately provoke outrage. He might come on his show tomorrow and say, “Hah! Fooled all you liberal commies! Had you going!” Or he might not. How sad is it that we even have to ask the question? But even if it was ...
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Images | Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:28:08 pm PDT
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Wikipedia Tries to Figure Me Out
Blogosphere | Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:00:27 pm PDT
Wikipedia’s editors are trying to figure out how to categorize Little Green Footballs. It’s kind of amusing to read the back and forth, as they scratch their heads in puzzlement that I actually seem to have ideas that weren’t planted in my head by the vast right wing conspiracy...
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Mini-Hitler Speaks, US Walks Out
World | Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:51:53 pm PDT
Mini-Hitler Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is speaking to his friends at the United Nations, and the US delegation just walked out. Here’s a thread to discuss this disgusting display of diplomatic dysfunction... UPDATE at 9/23/09 4:53:29 pm: The Canadian delegation has also walked out... UPDATE at 9/23/09 4:55:09 pm: The camera just panned around the chamber ...
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Wednesday Afternoon Lounge
Private | Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:56:57 pm PDT
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a whirlwind Wednesday afternoon. 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. That opens a ...
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Peering into the Galactic Center
Science | Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:40:17 pm PDT
The Hubble Space Telescope gets all the publicity, but there’s another orbiting telescope that sees into the X-ray spectrum and is also sending back mind-bending images from the depths of space — the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The latest photograph from Chandra shows the center of our Milky Way galaxy, and the ...
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Audio: Robert Stacy McCain on Alan Colmes Radio Show
US News | Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:54:23 pm PDT
Here’s a clip from the Alan Colmes radio show, in April 2006, featuring white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain trying to defend himself against the charge that he’s made numerous racist comments on the record. I use the word “trying” because this is one of the most pathetic performances of evasion ...
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Harry's Place: Out of Power, Going Bonkers
World | Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:21:07 am PDT
At British center left blog Harry’s Place, David T comments about Robert Stacy “interracial couples are repulsive” McCain, and compares this sorry situation to the increasing craziness of the British left: Out of Power, Going Bonkers. A week or so after Obama’s victory, I spoke to a colleague of mine ...
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Big Day at the UN
World | Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:53:54 am PDT
In his speech to the United Nations this morning, President Obama reiterated his call for Israel to cease building settlements, and for the Palestinians to end incitement against Israel. I will also continue to seek a just and lasting peace between Israel, Palestine, and the Arab world. Yesterday, I had ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:27:46 pm PDT
Just the traditional overnight thread; no quote this time because I want the Robert Stacy McCain post to stay at the top of the page.
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The Other 'Other McCain'
US News | Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:28:50 pm PDT
Kejda Gjermani has a very good post about white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain (a man who associates with neo-Nazis and outright hate groups like American Renaissance) and his deranged one-sided “war” against me: The Other “Other McCain”. Unprovoked and unchallenged, Robert Stacy McCain has been harassing Charles Johnson of ...
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Tuesday Evening Music: They Might Be Giants, 'Your Racist Friend'
Music | Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:55:46 pm PDT
Dedicated to the lovely folks at Hot Air. [Video] This is where the party ends I can’t stand here listening to you And your racist friend I know politics bore you But I feel like a hypocrite talking to you And your racist friend It was the loveliest party that I’ve ever attended If anything was broken I’m ...
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National Right to Life Committee Claims Health Bill Would 'Subsidize Abortions' - Bzzzt. False.
Politics | Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:22:50 pm PDT
The National Right to Life Committee is loudly claiming that the health care bill promoted by Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) would allow federal funds to subsidize abortions. Imagine my surprise, if you will, to discover that this claim is false.
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Onion: Congress Deals with Bat Problem
Humor | Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:27:32 am PDT
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Texas Gov. Perry Urges Value Voters to Read Skousen
US News | Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:27:09 am PDT
At last weekend’s Value Voters Summit, attended by top GOP politicians and run by a man (Tony Perkins) who associates with white supremacists like David Duke and the Council of Conservative Citizens, Texas Governor Rick Perry urged the audience to read “The 5,000 Year Leap” by W. Cleon Skousen — ...
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ACORN Worker Reported 'Human Smuggling' Incident
US News | Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:37:36 am PDT
It turns out that the ACORN worker seen on that now-infamous video from National City, California, actually did contact the authorities: ACORN Worker In Video Reported Couple. NATIONAL CITY, Calif. — Police say a worker with the activist group ACORN who was caught on video giving advice about human smuggling ...
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Overnight Open Thread, with Tiny T-Rex
Open | Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:28:58 pm PDT
Well, tiny in a comparative sense — this newly discovered ancestor of the giant predator was still 8 feet long and extremely deadly. [Video]
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Anti-Abortion Activist: 'Abortions Should Be Done in the Public Square'
US News | Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 6:59:04 pm PDT
At the Value Voters Summit, anti-choice activist Lila Rose says “abortions should be done in the public square.” Because then we would hear the angels sing. [Video] UPDATE at 9/21/09 7:41:56 pm: Some background information about Lila Rose: Citizen ‘Entrapment’: Lila Rose and 21st Century Stealth Pro-Life Activism.
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Again with the Grossly Inflated Numbers, Part Deux
Blogosphere | Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:41:26 pm PDT
Tim Blair joins the crowd of right wing bloggers trying to spin up the attendance numbers at the Washington DC tea party, responding to my post about Metrorail ridership by quoting the Heritage Foundation, who, as we all know, are completely unbiased (ahem): BIGNESS ENSMALLENED. ...Comparing September 12, 2008, to ...
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Wehner: Glenn Beck Harms the Conservative Movement
Opinion | Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:16:42 pm PDT
Commentary’s Peter Wehner agrees with me: Glenn Beck: Harmful to the Conservative Movement. Also see: About Glenn Beck’s Extremist Rhetoric About Glenn Beck’s Extremist Rhetoric, Part 2 And possibly the craziest show ever to air on Fox News: Glenn Beck Does the Rockefeller Boogie For even more evidence of how destructive Beck’s influence is, here’s an ...
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Our Friends the Saudis
World | Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:42:17 am PDT
You mean the Saudis lied when they said they would stop participating in the Arab League boycott of Israel? Shocka! Leading Democratic and Republican congressmen expressed outrage following a report in Monday’s Jerusalem Post that Saudi Arabia has been violating its promise to Washington to stop enforcing the Arab League ...
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Danish Conservative Speaks Out on Climate Change
Environment | Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:16:03 am PDT
Denmark’s Minister of Climate and Energy, Connie Hedegaard, is considered a “conservative” in that country — and she’s quoted in the New York Times with an interesting remark that makes me wonder if she’s been reading Little Green Footballs (OK, not really — but I can dream, can’t I?): Danish ...
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Report: Recession Bottoming Out
US News | Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 9:01:21 am PDT
Following on the heels of a very positive report from the Federal Reserve, economists are now saying that a recovery is near: Leading indicators show recession bottoming out. WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The U.S. recession is bottoming out and a recovery is near, economists for the Conference Board said Monday after ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:18:45 pm PDT
To thine own self be true. — William Shakespeare, Polonius in “Hamlet”
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Video: Stone the Unfaithful Tea Party Monkey
Video | Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:12:00 pm PDT
This video shows what happened when a man walked through the Washington DC tea party with a sign that said, “Public Option Now!” He had a police escort, and obviously needed them. Imagine what would have happened if the police weren’t there. [Video]
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Onion: Pre-Emptive Usage of Hillary Condemned
Humor | Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:53:54 pm PDT
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Sunday Afternoon Lounge
Private | Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 2:51:26 pm PDT
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a “sarcastic” Sunday afternoon. 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. That opens a ...
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Limbaugh: 'We Need Segregated Buses'
Politics | Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:06:51 am PDT
A lot of lefty blogs are calling for a boycott of Rush Limbaugh after he indulged in blatant, ugly race baiting. I’m not joining that call, because I don’t believe boycotts are a good thing, in general. People like Rush Limbaugh should be allowed to say this kind of stuff; ...
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FBI Arrests Three Men in Al Qaeda NYC Plot
US News | Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:59:57 am PDT
The latest reports about the alleged New York City bombing plot contain a clue to why so much of this story has seemed weird and disjointed — the FBI and the NYPD were apparently engaged in an inter-bureau squabble: Three Men Arrested by FBI in NYC Terror Plot. The FBI ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:28:47 pm PDT
Now you see, Lone Starr, that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb. — Dark Helmet, “Spaceballs”
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No Extremists at the Tea Party?
Images | Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 8:52:06 pm PDT
Another dozen pictures, “cherry-picked” out of thousands of similar photos all over the web.
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Sam Tanenhaus: The Death of Conservatism
Politics | Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:06:31 pm PDT
Bill Moyers (I know, I know, don’t even start) interviews Sam Tanenhaus, author of The Death of Conservatism — a book that touches on many of the same themes that have been recent topics of heated discussion at Little Green Footballs. Set aside 30 minutes to watch this; it’s worth ...
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GOP Congressman Roy Blunt: 'Eliminate the Monkey Problem'
Politics | Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:24:41 pm PDT
At the Family Research Council’s 2009 Values Voter Summit, Republican Congressman Roy Blunt (R-MO) blows the racist dog whistle with a “joke” about “eliminating the monkey problem.” Clear, obvious racism? No. Just a little “nudge nudge, wink wink” to the almost exclusively white audience — and listen to their reaction. [Video] UPDATE at ...
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Schaeffer: Subversives from Within
Religion | Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:11:22 am PDT
Frank Schaeffer, son of the late Calvinist preacher Francis Schaeffer, has some very interesting insights into the nature of the Christian far right — the extreme fundamentalists behind much of the home-schooling movement — and their almost total withdrawal from American culture: Glenn Beck and The 9/12 Marchers: Subversives From ...
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RIP: Irving Kristol
US News | Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:03:32 am PDT
One of the great conservative intellectuals, often called the “godfather of neoconservatism,” Irving Kristol has died at the age of 89. Quotes from Kristol’s long history of writing: Irving Kristol’s Reality Principles.
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:32:59 pm PDT
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. — Erich Fromm
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What's on My Kindle?
Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:48:41 pm PDT
The latest books I’m reading on my Kindle, with short reviews.
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Friday Night Lounge
Private | Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:01:23 pm PDT
It’s been a long time comin’ It’s goin’ to be a long time gone. And it appears to be a long, Appears to be a long, Appears to be a long time Yes, a long, long, long, long time before the dawn.
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Cable News Slapfight!
Media | Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:36:35 pm PDT
Rick Sanchez is a very unhappy CNN newsman. And he has good reason, because Fox News published an advertisement that is — no other words for it — blatantly dishonest. [Video]
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Denver Man Admits Al Qaeda Ties
US News | Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:02:45 pm PDT
Things are finally starting to break open in the case of the alleged New York bombing plot: NYC Terror Plot Suspect Admits al Qaeda Ties, Official Says. The Denver man at the center of an alleged New York bomb plot, Najibullah Zazi, has admitted he has ties to al Qaeda ...
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Texas School Board Trying to Rewrite US History
US News | Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:00:49 am PDT
The far right religious fanatics appointed by Texas Governor Rick Perry to the State Board of Education are at it again. Led by David Barton of the extreme fundamentalist group Wallbuilders (who don’t believe in the separation of church and state), the three fanatics on the panel are trying to subvert ...
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New Protests Break Out in Iran
World | Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:00:51 am PDT
Huge demonstrations have broken out again in Iran. In a clear rebuke to the Ahmadinejad regime’s support for Hezbollah and Hamas, protesters have taken to the streets chanting, “Neither Gaza, nor Lebanon, I give my life to Iran!” — on Quds Day, Iran’s “official” day of solidarity with the Palestinians. [Video] A ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:25:49 pm PDT
I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead. — Tom Stoppard
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Creationists Win Another One in Louisiana
Science | Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:42:29 pm PDT
Louisiana Governor (and part time exorcist) Bobby Jindal’s stealth creationist bill is starting to bear rancid fruit, as the state’s top school board approves new rules intended to make it difficult for residents to challenge the teaching of creationism in science classes. Pseudo-science promoted by ignorant religious fanatics takes another big ...
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Video: Obama's Missile Defense Announcement
World | Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:58:25 pm PDT
A lot of people are angry at President Obama for this decision (surprise!), but it should be pointed out that the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff unanimously recommended this course of action. Are they all wrong? [Video]
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Dan Riehl's Imaginary Black Kid Beatdown
Blogosphere | Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:04:59 pm PDT
Right wing blogger Dan Riehl takes a ride on the DC Metro after the tea party protest, and lapses into a reverie about putting a serious beatdown on some black children: Riehl World View: A 9/12 Experience: Dangerous Times. Riding out of DC on the Metro, 9/12, there were some folks ...
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Again With the Grossly Inflated Numbers
Blogosphere | Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:56:01 pm PDT
Again we must revisit the issue of attendance at the Washington DC tea party, because, amazingly, the right wing blogosphere is still trying to artificially pump up the number, with very scientific-sounding calculations. Here’s the Washington DC Metrorail service information for Saturday, September 12, 2009: September 12, 2009: Metrorail: 437,624 Comparable ...
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TIME: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?
Media | Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:48:53 pm PDT
TIME Magazine’s David Von Drehle asks: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America? I don’t know why anyone would think a far right populist demagogue who rants and weeps in front of millions of people and spreads conspiracy theories straight out of the canon of the John Birch Society would be a ...
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Birther Mastermind Wants Judge Tried for Treason
Weird | Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:00:50 am PDT
As we noted yesterday, Birther queen bee Orly Taitz’s latest idiotic lawsuit has been thrown out of court — and the judge put her on notice that she’d face sanctions if she continued filing these mindless Birther suits. Now she’s comparing herself to Nelson Mandela, and wants the judge who warned ...
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Secret IAEA Report: Iran Can Make a Bomb Right Now
World | Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:47:13 am PDT
The Associated Press says they’ve seen a secret report from the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb.
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Thursday Morning Open
Open | Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:35:15 am PDT
Since we didn’t have the traditional open thread last night, here’s one to start the morning off.
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No Racism at the Tea Party?
Images | Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:59:05 pm PDT
A few more photographs from the Washington DC tea party, that speak for themselves.
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The Latest Crazy Creationist Promo at the Craziest Right Wing Site
Science | Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:42:10 pm PDT
I thought I’d seen everything. Then I saw this completely crazy anti-evolution article at the web’s craziest right wing site, Weird Nut Daily: ’Origin of Species’ edition debunks evolution. That’s right. They’re claiming that Darwin’s ground-breaking work “The Origin of Species” is an anti-evolution book. You almost have to bow down before ...
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ACORN CEO's Press Release
Politics | Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:52:35 pm PDT
The CEO of ACORN has issued a press release, dealing with the “sting” video tapes that have been in heavy rotation on Fox News. In a press release, ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis says, that as “a result of the indefensible action of a handful of our employees,” the group will ...
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Another Nirther Case Thrown Out, Orly Taitz on Notice
Weird | Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:18:26 pm PDT
Another Birther case has been thrown out of court, this one brought by a female Army captain trying to refuse redeployment to Iraq because she believes Barack Obama is a sekrit Moslem furriner. And her lawyer, the whacked out queen of the Nirthers, Orly Taitz, has been warned that she could ...
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Cleon Skousen: The Crank Who Inspired Glenn Beck
Weird | Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:24:33 am PDT
Here’s an excellent exposé at Salon by Alexander Zaitchik, on one of the main ideological sources for Glenn Beck’s extremist rhetoric — a paleo-right crank connected to the John Birch Society named Cleon Skousen, whose bizarre book (“The 5,000 Year Leap”) Glenn Beck has been relentlessly promoting: Meet the man ...
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Antichrist Superstar
Weird | Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:33:21 am PDT
Here’s one of those stories that makes you go aaarrrgghhh, as the latest Public Policy Polling survey shows that a significant number of New Jersey voters believe Barack Obama might be His Nibs. The Horned One. Beelzebub. The Antichristers were also represented at last weekend’s tea party demonstration, of course: Lots of ...
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The Two Million Protester Myth and the Right Wing Blogosphere
Blogosphere | Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:51:52 am PDT
Brendan Nyhan has a good post on the spread of the two million protestor myth across the right wing blogosphere — one of the most embarrassing episodes I’ve witnessed among people who pride themselves on “fact checking.” After all, who cares about basic fact checking when there’s an ideology to be ...
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Carbon Dioxide Linked to Antarctic Ice Formation
Science | Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:24:52 am PDT
New research into ancient CO2 levels is confirming climate models, and linking declines in CO2 to Antarctic ice cap formation. SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A team of scientists studying rock samples in Africa has shown a strong link between falling carbon dioxide levels and the formation of Antarctic ice sheets 34 ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:48:12 pm PDT
Men of ill judgement oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it. — Sophocles
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'No Evidence' Rifqa Bary's Parents Want to Kill Her
US News | Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:08:55 pm PDT
The anti-Islam blogs have been hyperventilating for months over the case of Rifqa Bary — a Muslim teenager who converted to Christianity, ran away from home, and found a new home with a radical fundamentalist Christian preacher, Blake Lorenz of the “Global Revolution Church.” People like Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer ...
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Obama Supports Extending Patriot Act
US News | Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:38:22 pm PDT
Watch as the same people who loudly supported the Patriot Act for years suddenly start to find things wrong with it: Obama supports extending Patriot Act provisions. (Hat tip: karmic_inquisitor.)
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Glenn Beck Advertising Revenue Plummets
Media | Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:19:25 pm PDT
Left wing group ColorOfChange.org is reporting that their advertiser boycott has cost Glenn Beck more than 50% of his ad revenue. Estimated advertising revenue [the total amount of advertising money being spent during a block of commercial time for a program] was collected on a week-by-week basis for a period ...
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Pat Buchanan Promotes 9/11 'Truth'
Weird | Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:39:56 pm PDT
Now featured at the official website of Pat Buchanan: a bizarre screed reposted from the racist site VDARE, by paleocon wacko Paul Craig Roberts, promoting the 9/11 Truth movement: Why Propaganda Trumps Truth « Patrick J. Buchanan – Official Website. Yes, really. This is how bad it’s getting. A man who ...
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Another Idiot Brings Guns to an Obama Rally
US News | Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:54:08 pm PDT
Another fool who seems to think it’s completely appropriate to show up at a presidential rally with two loaded weapons: Protester defends bringing guns to Obama rally. If this kind of insanity keeps up, it’s only a matter of time before something bad happens. Josh Hendrickson left his children at home ...
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Glenn Beck Claims 1.7 Million People at Tea Party
US News | Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:15:14 am PDT
Glenn Beck, naturally, falls right in line with the absurdly inflated crowd numbers that are all over the right wing blogs. His source for this claim? A ... university somewhere. He can’t remember the name. Just some university that did a ... study. [Video] UPDATE at 9/15/09 11:33:47 am: One of the crowd pictures going ...
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Tea Party Leader Mark Williams: Hoist With His Own Petard
US News | Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:43:51 am PDT
Here’s Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams on the Anderson Cooper show, denying there are any extremists at the tea parties, they’re just a tiny minority of fringe elements, no racists, only a few Obama-with-a-bone-through-his-nose pictures, everything’s just fine. And then Anderson quotes what Mark Williams wrote on his own blog. [Video] ...
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Overnight Open Thread, with Electric Car
Open | Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:05:34 am PDT
Here’s your traditional overnight open thread, with another excellent video from the new kids’ album by They Might Be Giants, Here Comes Science. [Video]
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Right Wing Blogs in Massive Fail Mode
Blogosphere | Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:56:47 pm PDT
This is so pathetic I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Dozens — if not hundreds — of right wing blogs are running with this quote, portraying it as a statement about the tea party held last weekend: ‘We believe it is the largest event held in Washington, D.C., ever.’ The ...
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Video: Bad Craziness in Washington DC
US News | Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 7:11:16 pm PDT
Open talk of revolution, Hitler, Hitler Hitler, pictures of dead babies with a fanatic screaming “Repent,” and more people with signs that say, “We came unarmed ... this time.” Bad, bad craziness. [Video] Here’s a Google search for ‘we came unarmed this time’. This open threat of violence is everywhere on the far ...
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Video: Anti-Anti-Vax Steve Novella
Health | Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:48:26 pm PDT
At James Randi’s “Amazing Meeting,” Neurologist Steve Novella gave an interesting talk on the benefits of vaccination, and the growing danger of the anti-vaccination movement. (This is an introduction to a panel discussion that hasn’t been posted yet.) [Video]
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RIP, Norman Borlaug
US News | Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:34:48 pm PDT
Here’s a good obituary for a man you’ve probably never heard of, who saved many millions of people from dying of starvation: Norman Borlaug - Death of a Humanist.
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Yon with the Pedros
World | Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:52:04 pm PDT
Another terrific post full of photographs from Afghanistan, by Michael Yon: Pedros.
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Monday Afternoon Lounge
Private | Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:30:10 pm PDT
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a mind-boggling Monday as the right wing blogosphere unites to support an open racist who associates with white supremacists and neo-Nazis, Robert Stacy McCain — a man who believes Abraham Lincoln was a “war criminal” who should have been ...
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Got a Big Fish in Somalia
World | Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:24:58 am PDT
A major Al Qaeda leader thought to be the mastermind of the terror attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania has reportedly been killed in Somalia. A senior al Qaeda operative behind the 1998 attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania is believed to have been killed ...
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Tea Party Logo: Lifted From Communist Designs
Images | Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:15:27 am PDT
The threatening clenched fist logo of the “9-12 Taxpayer March on DC” (organizer of the Washington DC tea party) is clearly based on the logo of the Progressive Labor Party — a group whose stated purpose is to “smash capitalism.” Unity and resistance are what the fist represented in 1917, ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:19:48 pm PDT
Now they saw it — its newness, its raw crudeness, and its strength — and turned their shuddering eyes away. “Give us back our well-worn husk,” they said, “where we were so snug and comfortable.” And then they tried word magic. “Conditions are fundamentally sound,” they said — by which ...
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Robert Stacy McCain's Angry Departure From the Washington Times
US News | Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 10:05:54 pm PDT
The page isn’t live any more, but Google still has a cached copy of a revealing story about racist blogger Robert Stacy McCain, and his angry departure from the staff of the Washington Times: GEORGE ARCHIBALD: BREAKUP AT THE WASHINGTON TIMES? FishbowlDC, an Internet Web site of MediaBistro, reported on ...
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Video: Mars Attacks, Or Maybe It Doesn't
Environment | Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:12:44 pm PDT
Environmentalist Peter Sinclair has been remixing some of his earlier videos debunking the talking points of climate change deniers, to improve the audio and video. This one deals with the odd, easily refuted, yet endlessly repeated talking point (showing up often in LGF climate change threads) that the planet Mars ...
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More Scenes From a Tea Party
Images | Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 5:30:38 pm PDT
A few more photos from the Washington DC tea party demonstration, starting with one of the most repulsive posters I think I’ve ever seen. “Stop him now before it’s to [sic] late! It’s not about Obamacare it’s about power! When we smell the burning flesh from the ovens it will be ...
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No Nazi Imagery?
Images | Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 2:28:39 pm PDT
Since we now see some right wing bloggers claiming that Hitler-Nazi imagery was hardly even visible at yesterday’s tea party in Washington DC, here are a dozen photos we’ve found with a quick look around the web. There are lots more; it would take a week to post them all. ...
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Tea Party Leader Supported Racist Image of Obama
US News | Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:29:21 am PDT
One of the announcers yesterday, Amy Kremer, National Coordinator of the Tea Party movement, is the person who saw nothing wrong with circulating a picture of Barack Obama as a witch doctor with a bone through his nose, and pledged to support the creep who did it: Tea Party Leader ...
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CNN Reporter on Tea Party Tour: There's a 'Dark Fringe'
US News | Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 10:47:24 am PDT
Featuring a tea party attendee with an AK-47 semi-automatic rifle, talking about getting ready for civil war. [Video] Here’s the article that accompanies this video: Tea party movement has anger, no dominant leaders. No one on the tea party express seems concerned with the vocal fringe of the crowds that come with ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:13:15 pm PDT
He listen, but he do not hear. — Blue Johnson
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Tea Party Crowd Estimate: 60-70,000 People
US News | Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:17:47 pm PDT
According to the Washington DC Fire Department, there were between 60,000 and 70,000 people at today’s tea party protest. (Nowhere near the 2,000,000+ being claimed at some right wing blogs.)
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Scenes From a Tea Party
Images | Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:43:10 pm PDT
At least five of the featured speakers at today’s tea party in Washington DC were connected to the Ron Paul cult. Here’s a display the Paulians set up, right in front of the Capitol building. Also present at the tea party — the insane Birther movement, with professionally printed signs from ...
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ABC News Misquoted By Naderite Tea Partier
US News | Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 7:47:44 pm PDT
ABC News has issued a statement to correct the false crowd numbers reported by Naderite Matt Kibbe at today’s tea party demonstration: Protest Crowd Size Estimate Falsely Attributed to ABC News. Conservative activists, who organized a march on the U.S. Capitol today in protest of the Obama administration’s health care ...
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Saturday Night Music: They Might Be Giants, 'Science is Real'
Music | Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 6:10:56 pm PDT
A delightful video version of a song titled “Science is Real,” from the new kids’ album by They Might Be Giants, Here Comes Science. A big LGF thumbs-up goes to TMBG for being such strong advocates for science education. [Video]
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A Response to Stephen Green (With Link)
Blogosphere | Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 3:19:53 pm PDT
Stephen Green has a “response” to a comment I posted earlier in one of the tea party threads. He deliberately omits the link to LGF, which makes this a rather odd sort of response — one I’m not intended to see, I guess. Vodkapundit » A Response to Charles Johnson. Over ...
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Pro-Life or Pro-Death?
US News | Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 1:47:39 pm PDT
A sign that was distributed widely at today’s Tea Party in Washington DC: It’s disgusting enough on its own, but the group that created this is the American Life League — a “pro-life” group. Yes. A pro-life group that celebrates death. Lovely. UPDATE at 9/12/09 2:12:43 pm: And then we have the open threats ...
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Washington DC Tea Party Open Thread
US News | Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:03:44 am PDT
I’ve lost count of the number of “Obama = Hitler” signs I’ve seen on C-SPAN’s live feed. Here’s a thread to discuss the Washington DC tea party, as one of the worst “hip-hop” groups I’ve ever seen rants away with no rhythm.
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Birching the 912 Rally in DC
US News | Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 9:24:05 am PDT
Showing up in force today at the Washington DC tea party protest — the John Birch Society: Birching the 912 Rally in DC. Birching the 912 Rally in DC Description: Activist members and supporters of The John Birch Society have been gearing up to be in DC for the Tea Party festivities ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:11:27 pm PDT
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. — Evelyn Waugh
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Friday Evening Music: XTC, 'The Disappointed'
Music | Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:52:39 pm PDT
From one of XTC’s best records, Nonsuch, this song is called “The Disappointed.” (Dedicated to the stalker blog.) [Video]
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Friday Afternoon Music: Sergio Altamura, 'Dragonfly'
Music | Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:01:04 pm PDT
A beautiful solo acoustic guitar performance by Sergio Altamura (assisted by a Boss RC-20XL LoopStation), with a somber gravity appropriate for this day. The tune is “Dragonfly,” and it’s from Altamura’s latest album, Aria Meccanica. [Video]
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Obama Abandoning Naivete
World | Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:41:55 am PDT
The Obama administration is giving up their naïve and ill-considered policy of “engagement” toward Iran: Washington shifting from diplomacy toward sanctions on Iran. The United States is laying the groundwork for sanctions against Iran after having become increasingly disenchanted with the strategy of engagement, two senior administration officials told Jewish ...
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So Long, Powerline
Blogosphere | Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:54:40 am PDT
Since the people at Powerline have made a big public announcement about it, I’ll just say that I’m not the least surprised that they’ve delinked LGF. Powerline has been going in a very bad direction recently; the “all Obama-hatred, all the time” focus is bad enough, but worse are their ...
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Eight Years On
Opinion | Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:24:17 am PDT
It’s the eighth year after the Islamic terrorist attacks that ripped a hole in downtown Manhattan and murdered almost 3,000 people. Today, I’m remembering the children who were killed that day, who started their morning excited about taking a plane flight, and ended up as pawns for one of the most ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:57:54 pm PDT
The ten thousand questions are one question. If you cut through the one question, then the ten thousand questions disappear. — Zen proverb
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Robert Spencer and the Extremists, Continued
World | Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:41:52 pm PDT
More information has come out about Robert Spencer’s association with the extremist bigots of the Christian Action Network, and the aborted meeting with the English Defense League from which he’s now desperate to distance himself: The EDL Dines Alone. I recently posted a couple of blog entries (here and here) ...
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Ahmadinejad Not Invited to Obama Reception for World Leaders
World | Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:22:29 pm PDT
President Obama has told Iranian thug-in-chief Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not to bother showing up to a UN reception for world leaders: White House: ‘Ahmadinejad won’t get invite to NY event’. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be unlikely to receive an invitation to a reception US President Barack Obama will host in ...
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Hubble's New Eyes Open
Science | Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:20:42 am PDT
The Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, and sending back photographs of the universe that can only be described with that overworked word “awesome:” Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe. [Video]
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Assassination Rhetoric at Hate Blog
Blogosphere | Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:32:41 am PDT
When they aren’t calling me names, or threatening me with violence, the twisted people who post at a blog dedicated to stalking LGF are threatening the life of the President: Leftists Love Their Autocrats — 2.0: blogmocracy.com. (All links in this post are to Google’s cache, because I don’t link directly ...
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Yon: Eight Years After 9/11
World | Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:01:19 am PDT
Michael Yon has another report from Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, as usual with excellent photographs and commentary: Eight Years After 9/11.
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:29:42 pm PDT
It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. — Babe Ruth
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A Note to American Nirther
Weird | Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:55:53 pm PDT
The Nirthers at American Thinker call on me to authenticate the latest Nirth Certifikit they’ve dug up with help from Weird Nut Daily and Jerome Corsi: Obama’s ‘Long Form’ Shows Up. Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs did some admirable work on Dan Rather’s Memogate, primarily by duplicating Rather’s ...
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GOP Health Care Speaker: A Birther
Weird | Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:51:22 pm PDT
Remember this video, showing Republican politicians who’ve signed on to the Birther madness? [Video] Guess who appears at about 30 seconds in, saying he believes “there are questions” about Barack Obama’s citizenship? Rep. Charles Boustany, who delivered the GOP response to President Obama’s health care speech. (Hat tip: Gus 802.) UPDATE at 9/9/09 8:50:59 pm: Not ...
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President Obama Speaks on Health Care, the Post-Game
Politics | Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:01:03 pm PDT
Here’s a second thread to discuss what just happened. Andrew Malcolm has posted the full text for us to pick over.
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Live Video: President Obama Speaks on Health Care
Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:00:14 pm PDT
Here’s our first thread for President Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress, with live streaming video.
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Wednesday Afternoon Open
Open | Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:50:39 pm PDT
As we wait with bated breath for President Obama’s health care reform speech to a joint session of Congress, here’s a pre-game warmup open thread...
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Robert Spencer and the Extremists
World | Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:24:13 pm PDT
Since Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer has called me a liar — again — for reporting that he was hanging out with the bigots of the Christian Action Network and the English Defense League, here’s a post at Bartholomew’s Notes that illustrates — again — just how disingenuous Spencer can be: ...
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Fed Survey: The Economy is Mending
US News | Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:15:36 am PDT
A new Federal Reserve survey just released says that 11 out of 12 economic regions are either “stabilizing” or “improving” — indicating that the recession is over.
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Quackwatch Founder Launches Site to Debunk Health Care Reform Myths
Health | Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:04:59 am PDT
Here’s an excellent site run by retired psychiatrist Dr. Stephen Barrett (whose Quackwatch has done great work exposing many fraudulent medical practitioners, including the anti-vaccination nuts) looking at the many myths and distortions being circulated about the proposed health care reform legislation. Dr. Barrett calls it: Insurance Reform Watch.
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Another GOP Nirther Revealed
Weird | Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:20:48 am PDT
At the Cincinnati Labor Day tea party demonstration, an unhinged Birther approached Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) and demanded to know why Schmidt wasn’t calling for an investigation into Barack Obama’s citizenship. Schmidt’s reply: “I agree with you, but the courts don’t.” [Video] Bad craziness, being stoked by Republican leaders.
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:40:54 pm PDT
The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally ...
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Tuesday Night Lounge
Private | Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:03:29 pm PDT
The Lizard Lounge is now open, for a terrible indoctrination 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. That opens a window for the ...
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Tuesday Afternoon Music: Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau, 'All The Things You Are'
Music | Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:36:58 pm PDT
A terrific duet on the jazz standard “All the Things You Are,” by Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau. [Video]
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Obama Indoctrinates Kids to Hate Facebook
Politics | Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:30:07 pm PDT
The Obama Indoctrination story just keeps getting worse. Now the news is coming out that Obama held a secret meeting (known only to most of the nation’s media) with students after his speech this morning, and made yet another underhanded attempt to warp their minds and stifle their free speech. STUDENT: ...
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Washington Times Editor: Obama Was Educated at Yale
Politics | Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:03:58 am PDT
Washington Times editor emeritus Wesley Pruden rants about Obama’s speech to schoolchildren: The president’s press spokesman Monday derided the parents’ protest as “an ‘Animal House’ food fight.” This sounds less like strategy than surrender. Mr. Obama was educated at Yale Law School, but a professor at Grinder Switch A&M could ...
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Obama's Indoctrination of Innocent, Helpless Children, the Beginning
Politics | Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:03:38 am PDT
President Barack Obama is about to begin brainwashing America’s children, and here’s a thread to discuss the horrific implications. Need I point out that I’m being sarcastic? UPDATE at 9/8/09 9:45:34 am: OK, I’m typing this on a laptop, hidden among boxes in my attic while the empty-eyed demon commie children ransack my ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:44:54 pm PDT
While the poor people sleepin’ With the shade on the light While the poor people sleepin’ All the stars come out at night — Steely Dan, “Show Biz Kids”
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Laura Bush: Please Come Down From the Ledge
Politics | Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 7:07:14 pm PDT
Oh brother. How sad and pathetic have things gotten when even Laura Bush has to try to talk the right wing down from the ledge? Laura Bush praises Obama, bemoans excessive partisanship. [Video]
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Video: No Global Warming in the Last 10 Years?
Environment | Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:44:52 pm PDT
Environmentalist Peter Sinclair has an excellent new video debunking one of the most prevalent falsehoods promoted by a huge number of climate change skeptics, a talking point that has shown up in every LGF thread about climate change: that global warming stopped sometime in the last decade. Note that even one ...
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Obama's Indoctrination of Innocent, Helpless Children Revealed
Politics | Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:38:48 am PDT
Here’s President Barack Obama’s speech to schoolchildren: Prepared School Remarks. I’ve read the whole thing, looking for that sekrit socialism everyone is so sure must be hidden in there, and I just couldn’t find it. It seems to be a pretty good inspirational speech; work hard, stay in school, achieve your ...
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Obama's Labor Day Speech
Politics | Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:29:24 am PDT
Here’s a thread to discuss President Obama’s Labor Day speech to the AFL-CIO picnic in Cincinnati, now under way... Wait. LABOR day?! He’s speaking to the WORKERS? Obviously, it’s another sneaky commie plot! Just look at the hidden commie artwork on the Rockefeller Building — it shows... WORKERS! We’re doomed.
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Overnight Open Thread, with Snow Leopard
Open | Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:20:21 pm PDT
No, silly — not the Mac operating system. A real blue-eyed baby snow leopard! [Video] (Hat tip: ZooBorns.)
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Sunday Night Lounge
Private | Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 6:22:08 pm PDT
It’s Labor Day weekend Sunday, and the Lizard Lounge is now open. 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. That opens a window for the ...
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'English Defense League' Riot in Birmingham
World | Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 3:45:25 pm PDT
Once again, an anti-Islam protest (marketed as “anti-Islamic extremism”) in Britain by the “English Defense League” (a gang of skinheads, racists, and soccer hooligans with connections to the BNP, although they’re now squabbling) has resulted in a riot in Birmingham: Anti-fascists clash with right-wing protesters in Birmingham. [Video] And look who’s hanging ...
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Olbermann Declares War on Glenn Beck and Roger Ailes
Politics | Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:03:25 pm PDT
Uh oh. Responding to Glenn Beck’s Twitter call for his followers to dig up all the dirt they can find on Obama officials, Keith Olbermann is calling for all the dirt on Glenn Beck. I don’t know why I’ve got this phrasing in my head, but: Find everything you can about ...
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Sunday Afternoon Music: Steffen Schackinger, 'ElectriGuitartistry'
Music | Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 1:40:26 pm PDT
Here’s a really talented guitar player you probably never heard of, Steffen Schackinger, with a tune called “ElectriGuitartistry.” [Video]
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Van Jones' Statement
Politics | Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 9:45:50 am PDT
Here’s the statement released by Van Jones about his decision to resign from his “green jobs” position: White House Adviser Van Jones Resigns Amid Controversy Over Past Activism. “On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against ...
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Yon: We Can't Afford to Lose
World | Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 9:22:49 am PDT
Michael Yon emailed to let me know he’s now unembedded in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. Here’s his latest dispatch: New Afghan war: Frontline correspondent says fight has morphed – but we still can’t afford to lose.
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 10:59:19 pm PDT
Double helix in the sky tonight Throw out the hardware Let’s do it right — Steely Dan, “Aja”
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The Inevitable Happens: Van Jones Resigns
Politics | Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 9:30:39 pm PDT
To no one’s surprise. Of course, it’s announced on Saturday night, on Labor Day weekend, to avoid as much publicity as possible. WASHINGTON — Obama aide Van Jones resigns as environmental adviser amid controversy over past statements. Just to head off the howling mob: As I wrote yesterday, I’m no fan ...
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Deal of the Week: Jeans for the Keikis
Lifestyle | Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:41:59 pm PDT
Do your kids need jeans to wear to school? Amazon has a pretty good bargain for you: Free Shipping & $10 Off Orders over $50 of Select Denim.
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Cincinnati Tea Party Organizer: A Truther
Weird | Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:51:15 pm PDT
Instapundit links to pictures from the Cincinnati Tea Party. And since the blogosphere is ranting and raving about Truthers right now, and how horrible and evil they are (a position with which I agree), let’s take a little look at who’s behind the Cincinnati Tea Party, shall we? One of the main ...
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Glenn Beck, Ron Paul, and the Truthers
Weird | Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 10:43:53 am PDT
Stop the presses! LGF reader Killgore Trout has discovered a truly shocking piece of evidence, at the meetup website for the April 15th Tea Party in San Antonio, Texas: Glenn Beck @ San Antonio Tea Party @ the ALAMO - We Are Change San Antonio 911 Truth (San Antonio, TX). This is ...
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Where's the Truther Beef?
Opinion | Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 9:27:14 am PDT
So as we begin the Labor Day weekend, I did a little search around the right wing blogs who are relentlessly shouting that Van Jones is a Truther (based on pages at hate sites and Truther sites), to see if any of them have found anything else that ties Jones ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:17:44 pm PDT
I do detest all offices — all, at least, that are held on a political tenure. And I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which ...
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Pawlenty Jumps Aboard the Nut Wagon
Politics | Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 6:32:39 pm PDT
Creationist Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty is joining the bizarre bandwagon of deluded people who think Barack Obama is going to mesmerize their children into becoming commie robots with a 20-minute speech on the first day of school: Pawlenty sides with critics. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty today gave his support to ...
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Friday Night Shred: John Petrucci, 'Glasgow Kiss'
Music | Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 5:25:04 pm PDT
Here’s some totally sick shredding on a power trio version of an Irish reel, by John Petrucci of Dream Theater. This tune is on John’s solo album Suspended Animation. (And it’s actually musically interesting too.) [Video]
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Friday Afternoon Open
Open | Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:41:26 pm PDT
Here’s an open thread for a very warm Friday afternoon, as we skip merrily down a tree-lined avenue without a care in the world...
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BNP Supporters at Free Republic
Weird | Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:54:18 am PDT
Meanwhile, over at the far right fever swamp called Free Republic, denizens are openly supporting the white supremacist British National Party: British National Party Forced To Admit Non-Whites. To: Steelfish You most certainly don’t have freedom of associaton in America. Well maybe if you’re non-white you do. 5 posted on September 3, ...
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Truther Document 'Signatories' Say They Were Misled
US News | Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:12:57 am PDT
As people dig around for incriminating evidence on Van Jones at 9/11 Truther sites and crazy conspiracy sites like the antisemitic, Holocaust-denying rense.com (which, by the way, is not a credible source of information about anything), here are a couple of tidbits that tend to back up Jones’ claim that ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:14:06 pm PDT
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. — Zen proverb
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Van Jones: I Am Not a Truther
US News | Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:36:22 pm PDT
Obama’s “green jobs” official Van Jones has issued a statement about the claim that he’s a 9/11 Truther, promoted relentlessly today by Fox News: Controversial Obama Administration Official Denies Being Part of 9/11 ‘Truther’ Movement, Apologizes for Past Comments. A top environmental official of the Obama administration issued a statement ...
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George Will Calls for Immediate Retreat
Politics | Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:24:22 pm PDT
Now that Afghanistan and Iraq are Barack Obama’s problems, it’s suddenly becoming fashionable for right-wing pundits to call for cutting and running. Days after urging the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Afghanistan, conservative columnist George F. Will is calling on the administration to speed up the planned drawdown in ...
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Wacky Gadafi Calls for the End of ... Switzerland?
Weird | Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:40:27 pm PDT
The craziest Arab dictator in the world is calling on the UN to abolish the land of cuckoo clocks and numbered bank accounts, because they had the temerity to arrest his son just for beating his servants with a belt and a coat-hanger: Libya leader Col Moammar Khadafy to United ...
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More Advertisers Drop Beck
Media | Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:52:55 pm PDT
Eleven more major companies have pulled their advertisements from the Glenn Beck Comedy Hour, bringing the total number of advertisers participating in the boycott (organized by left-wing group Color of Change) to 57. OAKLAND, Calif.—Eleven new companies whose ads were recently seen during Beck’s program—Binder & Binder, Capital One, The ...
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Big Pharma: Evil, or Not Evil?
Health | Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:51:58 am PDT
The 3 Monkeys Guide to Health blog has an excellent post about the enormous fines levied against the drug company Pfizer, and the distorted claims being made about the situation: Pfizer Pleads Guilty, Pays $2.3 Billion For Off-Label Use of Bextra, Zyvox, Geodon and Lyrica. In this case it was ...
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Cannibalism at Health Care Rally in Los Angeles
US News | Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:12:11 am PDT
No word on whether private insurance will cover the finger reattachment or the dental check-up. Man’s Finger Bitten Off in Scuffle at Health Care Rally. A witness from the scene says a man was walking through the anti-reform group to get to the pro-reform side when he got into an ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:17:19 pm PDT
I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do “must” and “cannot” meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! — Ro-Man, “Robot Monster”
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Glenn Beck Does the Rockefeller Boogie
Weird | Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:30:52 pm PDT
Stop the presses! Glenn Beck has found sekrit communist propaganda in the artwork at the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan! Manhattan, I tell you! We’re doomed! [Video] Conspiracy theories about the Rockefellers are standard fare for wackos like the John Birch Society and people who rant and rave about the New World Order. ...
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We Got Mail!
Humor | Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:45:28 pm PDT
Our latest hate mail (out of eight so far today) is this perplexingly erudite batch of weird insults, from a reader in Phoenix, Arizona, titled “your blog” (whenever I see a title like that in my inbox I know I’m about to be called some names): you sir, are an ...
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Wednesday Afternoon Open
Open | Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:13:38 pm PDT
An open thread, with fish. Lots of fish. [Video]
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Freak-Out of the Day
Politics | Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:12:08 pm PDT
The right wing blogosphere is hyperventilating again, and again I just can’t join the freak-out. This time it’s over Barack Obama’s plan to address the nation’s schoolchildren, and indoctrinate them with evil communist principles like working hard, setting goals, and taking responsibility. Why, he’s just like Karl Marx. Some are even ...
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Louisiana Citizens Pay for Bobby Jindal's Church Visits
Politics | Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:47:59 am PDT
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who signed into law an “academic freedom” bill intended to sneak the teaching of creationism into Louisiana schools, has been using state-funded helicopters to fly him to church on Sundays: Governor’s Sunday helicopter travels have come at taxpayers’ expense. On Father’s Day this year, Gov. Bobby ...
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Be Famous in Your Spare Time
Books | Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:19:52 am PDT
Here’s your chance to get your name in Michael J. Totten’s new book.
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Sanford: God Wants Me to Be Governor
Politics | Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:59:33 am PDT
Philandering creationist governor Mark Sanford now says he’s being persecuted just like Sarah Palin: Sanford: Now I know what Palin felt like. And he repeated his contention that God put him on Earth to be the governor of South Carolina. Sanford didn’t mention if God also planned for him to sneak ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:26:51 pm PDT
if a girl likes me a lot and starts getting real nervous and suddenly begins asking me funny questions and looks sad if I give the wrong answers and she says things like, “Do you think it’s going to rain?” and I say, “It beats me,” and she says, “Oh,” and looks a little sad at the clear blue ...
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Onion: The Facebook-Twitter Revolution
Humor | Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:02:07 pm PDT
At last, parents have the technology to discover their children’s deepest secrets. [Video]
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Michele 'The Punisher' Bachmann: 'Slit Our Wrists and Be Blood Brothers'
Politics | Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:24:42 pm PDT
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), always a dependable source of loony rants, really uncorked a winner today as she told a wildly cheering audience that she wanted them to slit their wrists. “This cannot pass,” the Minnesota Republican told a crowd at a Denver gathering sponsored by the Independence Institute. “What ...
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Tuesday Afternoon Open
Open | Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:00:51 pm PDT
Here’s your traditional midday open thread, with time lapse video of the Los Angeles wildfire. [Video]
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Hamas: Teaching About the Holocaust is a 'War Crime'
Middle East | Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:27:11 pm PDT
The United Nations, for the first time, is planning to introduce lessons about the Nazi Holocaust to Palestinian students in Gaza. In the twisted world of Hamas, however, this amounts to a war crime. Hamas spiritual leader Younis al-Astal lashed out after hearing that the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, ...
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Snow Leopard Installed
Technology | Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:42:04 pm PDT
Took the plunge and installed the latest version of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, and it went off without a hitch. I had to upgrade three utilities to the latest versions: Snapz Pro X, Default Folder X, and Little Snitch. Apart from that, everything seems to be working beautifully. Yes, I ...
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Pat Buchanan: Hitler Wasn't So Bad
US News | Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:28:37 am PDT
Pat Buchanan says Adolf Hitler was really a misunderstood pacifist: Did Hitler Want War? Buchanan’s article is all over the neo-Nazi and Ron Paul websites today — they love it. Townhall.com, HumanEvents.com, cnsnews.com, Stormfront, dailypaul.com — all publishing Pat Buchanan’s revisionist drivel. UPDATE at 9/1/09 1:21:07 pm: Real Clear Politics has apparently yanked ...
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A Call to Boycott World Net Daily From the Right
Weird | Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:29:45 am PDT
I’ve been sounding off about the insanity peddled by World Net Daily for quite a while. They promote every wrong, crazy idea associated with the far right: creationism, birtherism, anti-vaccinationism, and much more. And some of their writers associate openly with white supremacists and racist groups. After reading an especially mindless ...
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Overnight Open Thread
Open | Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:11:56 pm PDT
His enemy was time. Or perhaps it was his friend. One never knows for sure. — Thomas Wolfe, “You Can’t Go Home Again”
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