LGF Archives: October 2009
The Halloween/Photoshop Convergence
Images | Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 7:21:15 pm PDT
Halloween and Photoshop are made for each other at Worth1000.com: Chop a Worthian - Halloween Edition 2009.
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Saturday Afternoon Music: Jimmy Wahlsteen, 'Tranquility'
Music | Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 1:12:56 pm PDT
Here’s another nice track from Jimmy Wahlsteen, playing a steel string acoustic guitar called a “concert” model, which has a smaller body than the more common “dreadnought” style. Jimmy’s new album, “181st Songs” is now available at Amazon and the iTunes Store. [Video]
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Malkin: Scozzofava a 'Radical Leftist'
Politics | Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:26:42 am PDT
Michelle Malkin links to neo-Confederate blogger Robert Stacy McCain and labels moderate Republican Dede Scozzofava a “radical leftist.’ If you differ from the red meat social conservative base on two primary issues — abortion and gay marriage — that’ll get you thrown out on your ear and labeled a radical leftist ...
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Scozzafava Bails
Politics | Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:16:17 am PDT
GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava has bowed out of the NY-23 race, leaving religious right/tea party candidate Doug Hoffman nearly tied with Democrat Bill Owens. The far right (led by James Dobson, Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, etc.) is testing its grip on the Republican Party with Hoffman’s candidacy. At this point it ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:13:18 pm PDT
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Onion: Tragedy Narrowly Averted at Clippers Game
Humor | Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:39:37 pm PDT
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The Creationists Distorting Darwin Blues, Again
Science | Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:51:54 pm PDT
The intellectual mismatch of the year: NCSE executive director Eugenie C. Scott vs. creationist Ray Comfort. How Creationist ‘Origin’ Distorts Darwin. Ray Comfort and I agree that “science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.” We agree that it would be nice for students to get a ...
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Friday Night Music: Tommy Emmanuel, Blues Improvisation
Music | Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:43:42 pm PDT
A couple minutes of ridiculously great acoustic guitar blues from Tommy Emmanuel, recorded at a master class in Belgrade’s Guitar Art Festival in 2007. [Video]
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Milky Way Panorama 2.0
Science | Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:05:21 pm PDT
Astrophotographer Axel Mellinger of Central Michigan University has created a new panoramic image of the Milky Way galaxy. You may have seen version 1.0 of Mellinger’s panorama; it’s even for sale as a poster at Amazon. Version 2.0 is an order of magnitude more detailed. It was assembled from more than ...
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Half the Pentagon Spending Committee Under Investigation
Politics | Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:13:31 pm PDT
Another confidence-booster for the federal government today, as nearly half of the members of the John Murtha-chaired Defense Appropriations Subcommittee are being investigated for ethics violations involving millions of dollars. Turns out that nearly half the members of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, which Murtha chairs, are under investigation for funneling ...
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Inhofe, the Last Flat Earther
Environment | Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:33:35 am PDT
The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank attended a meeting of the Senate environment committee this week, and describes Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) as “the last flat-earther:” Washington Sketch: A hostile climate for Sen. Inhofe the warming skeptic. “Eleven academies in industrialized countries say that climate change is real; humans have caused ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:17:57 pm PDT
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Video: Tea Party, The Documentary Film
Video | Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:39:21 pm PDT
Posted without comment, except perhaps a slight cough which I will mask and pretend was insignificant. [Video]
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Thursday Night Music: Ry Cooder, 'Waitin' For Some Girl'
Music | Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:07:09 pm PDT
Just a little music from Ry Cooder’s latest groovy side, I, Flathead. (Here it is at the iTunes Store). [Video]
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Video: The Steady Loss of Sea Ice
Environment | Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:57:09 pm PDT
Environmentalist Peter Sinclair’s new video deals with recent sea ice observations, both from satellites and ground observation teams, showing that the area of melting in the northern polar cap is expanding dramatically. [Video]
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Another Birther Suit Bites the Dust
Weird | Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:54:46 am PDT
Birther queen bee Orly Taitz has been pursuing a lawsuit in California’s Central District, demanding proof of President Obama’s citizenship. Today the judge dismissed the suit — and had pretty scathing words for Taitz: Orly Taitz Smacked Down: Birther Lawsuit Dismissed. Here’s the document, which Scribd allows me to embed directly ...
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Einstein Wins the Great Race
Science | Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:02:26 am PDT
A race between gamma rays across 7.3 billion years of time and space has resulted in a virtual tie, confirming Einstein’s theory of relativity once again. The race was between gamma rays of differing energies and wavelengths spit in a burst from an exploding star when the universe was half ...
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Radical Imam Killed in Dearborn Raid
US News | Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:10:55 am PDT
This is the Associated Press video report on an FBI raid in the Detroit area that resulted in a shootout, in which the leader of an extremist Sunni group was killed. [Video] UPDATE at 10/29/09 9:44:34 am: A more detailed video from CNN: Hearing set for suspects tied to group seeking Islamic state. [Video] UPDATE ...
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Groundhog Day in Iran
World | Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:53:18 am PDT
Surprising only those who haven’t paid attention to Iran’s history for the last 30 years, Iranian authorities waited until the last day to formally request “changes” to the latest IAEA proposal. Iran has formally asked for changes to an International Atomic Energy Agency proposal to ship nuclear fuel out of ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:19:42 pm PDT
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Video: The People Behind Doug Hoffman's Candidacy
Politics | Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 7:08:35 pm PDT
Michael Long is chairman of the New York state Conservative Party. This is Long’s speech to supporters on the steps of the Capitol Building in Albany (on June 9, 2009). A glimpse of the agenda of the people behind Doug Hoffman’s candidacy in New York’s 23rd congressional district. [Video] Another video from this ...
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Registration Wednesday Evening
Open | Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:35:36 pm PDT
There comes a time when the registration door must swing open, and the Turnstiles of Lizardia must turn, clicking and counting away the hatchlings as they enter. That time is now upon us, for a limited time, and lo, the ‘Register’ link is at the top of the left sidebar. It’s not ...
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Obama Administration Opposes UN Anti-Defamation Laws
Religion | Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:54:26 pm PDT
The Obama administration, through Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, came out strongly today against the Organization of the Islamic Conference’s efforts to get the UN Human Rights Council to adopt resolutions barring the defamation of religion. By “religion,” the OIC means “Islam.” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized on ...
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Onion: Republicans Endorse Swine Flu
Humor | Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:32:00 pm PDT
A classic Onionism: Obama’s Declaration Of Swine Flu Emergency Prompts Pro-Swine-Flu Republican Response. WASHINGTON—Claiming that the president was preying on the public’s fear of contracting a fatal disease last week when he declared the H1N1 virus a national emergency, Republican leaders announced Wednesday that they were officially endorsing the swine ...
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EBay Says No to Scott Roeder Benefit Auction
US News | Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:38:49 am PDT
The Kansas City Star’s Judy L. Thomas reports that eBay has rejected an auction by anti-abortion extremists intended to raise money for Scott Roeder, the alleged murderer of Dr. George Tiller. The auction would have included items such as an Army of God manual, a “cookbook” compiled by a woman ...
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Steele Continues Backing Scozzafava
Politics | Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:15:19 am PDT
The religious right and social conservatives (Tim Pawlenty, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, James Dobson, Rick Santorum, etc.) are rushing to the side of Doug Hoffman in the NY-23 election, but Michael Steele stands forlornly by Dede Scozzafava. Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele stuck by Republican special election candidate ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:24:56 pm PDT
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Hot Air Comments of the Day
Blogosphere | Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:47:10 pm PDT
All I can say is, “Yikes.” It’s secession and revolution time (not necessarily in that order) in the Hot Air commentspace tonight, in a thread about Harry Reid’s push for the “public option:” Texas can opt out by seceding. […] And the rest of the sane states […] If they do, I’m so there. […] That’s ...
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Nuclear Power and Climate Change
Environment | Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:34:43 pm PDT
Associated Press writer H. Josef Hebert has an interesting piece about the importance of nuclear power in the debate over global warming, not just as a technical means to generate power without CO2 emissions, but as a political bargaining chip. The industry’s long-standing campaign to rebrand itself as green is ...
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Gingrich Says It's a 'Purge,' Malkin Says 'Stone the Left Wing Saboteurs!'
Politics | Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:30:08 pm PDT
Newt Gingrich says conservatives and right wingers are engaged in a “purge.” “This idea that we’re suddenly going to establish litmus tests and all across the country we’re going to purge the party of anybody who doesn’t agree with us 100 percent; that guarantees Obama’s reelection, that guarantees Pelosi as ...
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Robot of the Day: The Boston Dynamics Pet Man
Technology | Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:27:47 am PDT
Robotic technology gets eerily close to mimicking human motion with Boston Dynamics’ new Pet Man. [Video] (Hat tip: Killgore.)
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Anti-Abortion Activists Sell Extremist Items to Defend Scott Roeder
US News | Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:18:18 am PDT
The more extreme anti-choice activists give themselves permission to do almost anything in the name of God. The latest example — an eBay auction of memorabilia from the violent fringe: Online auction to raise funds in Scott Roeder case. An Army of God manual. A prison cookbook compiled by a ...
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Neo-Confederates Ride to Blogger Robert Stacy McCain's Rescue
Blogosphere | Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:11:03 am PDT
White supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain’s neo-Confederate friends ride to his defense: League of the South Denounces Myself, Charles Johnson for Picking on Racist. There’s a bit of good news for those various conservative commentators who’ve been defending Robert Stacy McCain in the wake of mounting evidence that he’s a ...
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Global Warming Hasn't Stopped
Environment | Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:14:51 am PDT
The Associated Press commissioned a review of years of temperature data by independent statisticians, and they’ve definitively refuted the often-repeated canard that the temperature of the Earth is decreasing: Statistics experts reject global cooling claims. The statisticians, reviewing two sets of temperature data, found no trend of falling temperatures over ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:28:01 pm PDT
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Nova's Evolution Goodies
Science | Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:17:03 pm PDT
The PBS Nova show has a great new website for their ongoing series dealing with various aspects of Evolution. Among other things to explore, an interactive map of the Galapagos Islands featuring Gigapan ultra-high definition scrolling panorama images.
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Monday Night Lounge
Private | Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:13:12 pm PDT
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a moody 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. That opens a ...
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Kook-Fishing with Barrett Brown
Blogosphere | Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:38:21 pm PDT
It’s kind of inside blogosphere baseball, but Barrett Brown’s excruciating deconstruction of a wingnut obsessed with defending white supremacist Robert Stacy McCain and with attacking, well … me and anyone they think is defending me, is pretty danged funny: The Great Pundit Hunt – Epilogue: The Case of the Houses ...
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White House Website Goes Open Source
Technology | Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:33:56 pm PDT
Here’s an interesting contrast between the GOP, which spent $1.4 million on a buggy, incomplete website redesign, and the Democratic White House, where they just launched a redesign of the site using the open source Content Management System (CMS), Drupal. (And it looks great.) Publisher Tim O’Reilly has a good piece ...
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Randall Terry's How-To Videos: 'Pelosi and Reid Burn in Hell'
Weird | Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:51:41 pm PDT
Since the murder of Dr. George Tiller, anti-choice extremist Randall Terry’s been getting louder. In his latest unsavory stunt, he’s advocating that people burn effigies of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Dave Weigel points out Terry’s classy demonstration videos. [Video]
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BNP Official's Mask Falls Off
Weird | Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:18:01 am PDT
One of the common talking points of people who try to make excuses for European fascist parties like the Belgian Vlaams Belang is that they can’t be fascist, because they’re pro-Israel. Some of these groups even have Jewish members, to give themselves extra ideological protection. But the British National Party’s “legal ...
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NY Daily News: Rush Limbaugh Falls for Obama Thesis Hoax
US News | Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:08:13 am PDT
In the New York Daily News, political correspondent Michael Saul has a piece about the crudely faked “Obama thesis” that tricked Rush Limbaugh and a gaggle of right wing bloggers: Limbaugh falls for Obama thesis hoax - but is in no Rush to apologize. “So here is who we have ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:28:53 pm PDT
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Sunday Night Lounge
Private | Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 6:06:41 pm PDT
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a salutary 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. That opens a ...
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Sunday Night Music: Jimmy Wahlsteen, 'Shifts of Attention'
Music | Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 5:25:37 pm PDT
CandyRat Records has uploaded another great video by Swedish acoustic guitarist Jimmy Wahlsteen, from his upcoming album 181st Songs. [Video]
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Sunday Afternoon Open, with Subtitled Film
Open | Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 1:39:44 pm PDT
Intake of breath! A French film with subtitles! Is there no low to which the Mad King Charles will not descend? [Video]
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Gallup: Americans Don't Think Obama Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize
Politics | Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:08:36 am PDT
It’s official — 61% of the US public agrees with President Obama that he doesn’t really deserve the Nobel Peace Prize: Americans’ Views on Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize. The poll breaks apart on partisan lines, of course. PRINCETON, NJ — The majority of Americans do not believe President Barack ...
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22% of Brits Would Consider Voting for White Supremacists?
Weird | Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 9:41:56 am PDT
Wow. If this is true, Britain may have a bigger problem with racial issues than the United States does: One in Five Britons Consider Voting BNP, Telegraph Poll Says. Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) — One in five Britons would consider voting for the whites-only British National Party, a YouGov poll for ...
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Saturday Evening Music: Joe Bonamassa, 'If Heartaches Were Nickels'
Music | Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:28:11 pm PDT
Some late night shreddin’ blues from Joe Bonamassa, from his album Live from Nowhere in Particular. (Here it is at the iTunes Store.) [Video]
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Saturday Night Ocean Thread
Images | Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 7:30:09 pm PDT
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Saturday Night Music: John Hiatt and The Goners, 'Your Dad Did'
Music | Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 5:57:41 pm PDT
John Hiatt and The Goners with the great slide player Sonny Landreth, rocking. [Video] (Hat tip: albusteve.)
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Video: Homer Evolves
Humor | Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 3:40:39 pm PDT
Hulu.com has some classic Simpsons stuff in high quality on YouTube. And lo, for it may be embedded: the Homer Evolution Montage. [Video]
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Nick Griffin Remix
Weird | Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:52:56 pm PDT
A classic remix of BNP leader Nick Griffin’s appearance on the BBC’s “Question Time.” [Video] Also see Harry’s Place for white supremacist David Duke’s reaction to Griffin’s pathetic attempt to distance himself from Duke: David Duke: Griffin was ‘transparently dishonest’ on Question Time.
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Networks Not All Fox News
Media | Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:29:05 pm PDT
You know that story that was on Fox News yesterday, claiming that Fox had been excluded from a “roundtable” interview with pay czar Ken Feinberg? And then (according to Fox News) all the other networks stood up and said, “If Fox isn’t there, we’re not going to be there! We’re all ...
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Barrett Brown Goes Kook-Baiting
Blogosphere | Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 9:19:16 am PDT
Barrett Brown has another funny (because it’s true!) piece at True/Slant about his adventures in the netherworld of Internet stalkerdom, and the deranged characters who’ve dedicated their shabby lives and shabbier blogs to posting weird childish smears of yours truly: In Which I Try My Hand at Cartooning and Subsequently ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:24:43 pm PDT
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GOP Spent More Than a Million Dollars to Launch a Disastrous Website
Politics | Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:15:22 pm PDT
Unbelievable. The Republican Party’s pathetically inept new website actually cost them more than a million dollars to set up: Entering digital age an expensive proposition for GOP. And for that $1.4 million, they got a website that crashed continuously on its launch day, had almost no real content, was mocked across ...
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Friday Night Music: Jimmy Wahlsteen, 'Rapid Eye Moment'
Music | Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:27:49 pm PDT
Here’s a great acoustic guitar player from Sweden (where he’s a successful studio musician), Jimmy Wahlsteen, with a song from his upcoming album 181st Songs. [Video]
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Obama 'Thesis' - a Hoax
Blogosphere | Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:59:13 pm PDT
Rush Limbaugh, Michael Ledeen, and a host of wingnut blogs were radically punk’d today by a hoax report that originated at ‘jumpinginpools’ (a blog run by a fool who was recently banned from LGF for relentlessly pimping his blog, and registering sock puppet after sock puppet to upding his own ...
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Hot Air Comments of the Day
Blogosphere | Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:31:10 pm PDT
For today’s selections from the thousands of extreme, hateful, racist, and/or violent comments posted at Hot Air, we’ll start with some comments posted in this thread: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Hume’s challenge to media: Do you really want the Gibbs Seal of Approval? (Again, note that some of these ...
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Huckabee Leads in 2012 Poll
Politics | Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:39:35 pm PDT
A new survey from Public Policy Polling shows that the most popular Republican so far, when compared with Barack Obama, is far right theocrat Mike Huckabee: 2012 Poll: Huckabee Performs Best. Rather than facing each other in this poll, the Public Policy Polling survey (Oct. 16-19, 766 RV, MoE /- 3.5%) ...
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Windows 7 Released
Technology | Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:26:05 am PDT
You may have heard that Microsoft’s new version of Windows (Windows 7) has been officially released, with features such as Jump Lists, Aero Shake, Snap, new Device Stage Management, as well as new levels of home group network interaction. There’s a lot of talk about it on the PC websites; ...
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Ida, We Hardly Knew You
Science | Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:32:45 am PDT
The discovery of a new fossil in Egypt that appears to be a younger relative of the “Ida” fossil announced a few months ago (with great fanfare and publicity) has cast considerable doubt on whether Ida is an ancestor of human beings: New Primate Fossil Poses Further Challenge to Ida. ...
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Frum: Republican Fratricide
Politics | Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:07:43 am PDT
David Frum looks at the GOP’s impending defeats in New York and New Jersey, and the angry conservatives who are going to cut off their noses to spite their faces: Prelude to Republican fratricide. What lessons will Republicans draw? You might think that the impending defeats in New York ...
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RIP, Soupy Sales
US News | Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:46:24 am PDT
One of the greats of American TV comedy has taken his last pie in the face. Milton Supman, aka Soupy Sales, has died at the age of 83.
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Overnight Black Helicopter Thread
Open | Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:23:17 pm PDT
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Sarah Palin Goes Rogue Against the GOP
Politics | Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:26:34 pm PDT
Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor who quit in the middle of her elected term, is endorsing a third party candidate in New York’s 23rd congressional district, because the official GOP candidate doesn’t meet her standards for ideological purity (in other words, Dede Scozzafava is pro-choice): Palin backs Hoffman in ...
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Oklahoma Far Right Abortion Law Blocked By Court
US News | Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:43:41 pm PDT
The new Oklahoma law that blatantly violated state and federal constitutions, by requiring that detailed information about each woman who has an abortion be published on the state’s website, has been delayed by at least a month: Okla. Abortion Publicity Law Blocked by Court. To challenge the state constitutionality of ...
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Is Anyone Minding the Store at the GOP's Brand New Website?
Politics | Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:09:50 pm PDT
A Ron Paul lunatic has been spamming the official GOP website since October 14th with insane, offensive, and/or antisemitic pictures like these: Thomas Kubica’s Photos. Unbelievable. Is anyone awake over there at this shiny new website that’s not really a website?
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Onion: Biden Embarrasses Nation
Humor | Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:57:45 pm PDT
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Barnes and Noble Announces the Nook
Technology | Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:45:39 pm PDT
Amazon’s Kindle is about to have serious competition, with the new Barnes and Noble Nook E-Book Reader. The Nook uses a similar E Ink display, but has some interesting improvements over the Kindle too, including the ability to connect to the Barnes and Noble store through Wi-Fi (in addition to 3G), ...
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Major Science Organizations Send Letter to US Senate on Climate Change
Environment | Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:46:18 pm PDT
Yesterday, the leaders of 18 major American scientific organizations — some of the most reputable and respected organizations in the world — sent the following letter to the US Senate, strongly urging Senators to address the issue of human-caused climate change and offering their help to become better informed. October ...
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NPR: NYT Reporter Revkin Attacked By Rush Limbaugh
Opinion | Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:00:16 am PDT
Here’s NPR’s coverage of Rush Limbaugh’s ugly, distorted attack on New York Times climate change reporter Andrew Revkin: Innovative ‘Times’ Reporter Draws Limbaugh’s Ire. [Audio]
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House Republican Chairman Praises Limbaugh, Beck
Politics | Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:01:50 am PDT
The chairman of the House Republican Conference, Mike Pence, speaks out in favor of the race-baiting of Rush Limbaugh and the black helicopter bad craziness of Glenn Beck: Mike Pence: Limbaugh, Beck speak for many Americans. A picture of a political party gone completely off the rails. The GOP is afraid ...
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Anti-BNP Protesters Storm BBC Building
World | Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:53:42 am PDT
The appearance of fascist BNP leader Nick Griffin on the BBC’s “Question Time” program is not going over well with some of the people who pay to subsidize the BBC — in other words, the British public. About 25 protesters stormed security and broke into the grounds of the BBC’s ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:34:22 pm PDT
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Robert Stacy McCain's Neo-Nazi Friend Will Remain in Jail
US News | Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:59:21 pm PDT
Bill White, the neo-Nazi freakazoid who threatened me and tried to find my home address and the addresses of my family to post them on his hate site Overthrow.com, is going to remain in jail in Virginia until his December trial, according to the Roanoke Times. A federal appeals court ...
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Amazon's Halloween Deals
Entertainment | Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:38:07 pm PDT
If you have kids and they’re excited by the approaching spookiness of Halloween, Amazon has some great deals that you might want to take advantage of: Amazon’s Halloween Store (Costumes, candy, accessories, and décor) Amazon Halloween Candy Deals If you don’t have kids, there are some excellent deals available on grown-up items too: Amazon ...
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Outrageous Outrage of the Minute!
Blogosphere | Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:24:12 pm PDT
Gateway Pundit says, with his usual subtlety: A new low for the rabid left… They just can’t hate this Christian conservative woman enough. (Bold text in original.) Here’s what Jim Hoft is freaking out about today: Attention, Sarah Palin bashers: Lookalike book ‘Going Rouge’ is coming! Rabid leftist capitalist anti-Christian conservative-haters! We’re doooomed! ...
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CO2 At Highest Level in 15 Million Years - Update
Environment | Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:53:18 pm PDT
Science Daily has more details on the alarming Caltech study we noted earlier this week, led by Aradhna Tripati: Last Time Carbon Dioxide Levels Were This High: 15 Million Years Ago, Scientists Report. “The last time carbon dioxide levels were apparently as high as they are today — and were ...
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British Fascist Leader Echoes Rush Limbaugh
World | Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:15:58 pm PDT
There’s a huge row going on in Britain over the leader of the fascist, white supremacist British National Party, Nick Griffin, appearing on the BBC’s venerable “Question Time” political analysis show. Now Griffin is gloating that his appearance has enabled the BNP to set a record in telephone donations: BNP: ...
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Video: Chris Matthews Interviews Leader of 'Oath Keepers'
Video | Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:29:12 pm PDT
Last night Chris Matthews interviewed the founder of the disturbing “Oath Keepers” movement, a group of self-styled patriots who spout militia rhetoric and conspiracy theories, and prepare for armed revolution — against the Obama administration. Also on the show: Southern Poverty Law Center spokesman Mark Potok, who notes the similarity ...
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Terror Arrest in Massachusetts
US News | Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:37:07 am PDT
There’s been another terror-related arrest today, in Sudbury, Massachusetts, where a man was allegedly planning attacks on politicians and a shopping mall. As with all the recent terror-related arrests, Tarek Mehanna apparently never even got close to carrying out any attacks; the FBI was on to him every step of the ...
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The Roots of Obama's Nefarious Communist Volunteerist Plot - Revealed!
Weird | Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:10:53 am PDT
Following up on Glenn Beck’s latest attempt to warn the country, or to put it another way, Glenn Beck’s latest bugeyed freakout, here’s a little reminder that this diabolical commie plot to encourage volunteerism didn’t start with Barack Obama. Oh no, my friends! For the origin of this truly monstrous scheme ...
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Wired Takes on the Anti-Vaxers
Health | Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:26:25 am PDT
Wired’s Amy Wallace has an excellent piece on the rise of the idiotic and perilous anti-vaccine “movement:” An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All. Wired also identifies some of the most prominent idiots promoting this bad craziness (but somehow they missed Bill Maher): The Misinformants: Prominent ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:11:39 pm PDT
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Former Human Rights Watch Chairman Notices Things Have Gone Awry
Middle East | Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:37:05 pm PDT
Robert Bernstein, a former chairman of Human Rights Watch, had an extraordinary op-ed in the New York Times yesterday, blasting his former organization for its overwhelming bias against the state of Israel: Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast. AS the founder of Human Rights Watch, its active chairman for 20 ...
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NYT's Revkin Responds to Limbaugh's 'Suicide' Suggestion
US News | Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:59:09 pm PDT
Andrew Revkin comments on Rush Limbaugh’s ugly remark that Revkin should commit suicide because he brought up the subject of birth control: Thought Experiments on Birth and Death. As I put it in the Wilson event: “Should you get credit — if we’re going to become carbon-centric — for having ...
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Barrett Brown Twirls His Handlebar Mustache in Robert Stacy McCain's Direction
Blogosphere | Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:02:37 pm PDT
Barrett Brown (accused recently by Robert Stacy McCain of “sucking Charles Johnson’s c*ck”) has a new piece up at True/Slant, responding to McCain’s latest series of condescending excuses for his neo-Confederate and white supremacist writings: My Response to Robert Stacy McCain. Great stuff here — funny and very much to ...
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Limbaugh to NYT Reporter: 'Why Don't You Just Go Kill Yourself?'
US News | Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:55:45 pm PDT
A few weeks ago, New York Times environmental blogger Andrew Revkin made a relatively straightforward observation, that “more children equal more carbon dioxide emissions.” Revkin went on to suggest that family planning and contraception might be an important part of any plan to limit CO2 emissions: Are Condoms the Ultimate ...
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Video: UN Stunned by British Colonel's Speech
Middle East | Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:39:50 am PDT
Here’s an amazing speech at the United Nations by the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Kemp, about the UN’s latest attempt to demonize Israel, the Goldstone Report. [Video] UN Watch has more information, and a complete transcript of Col. Kemp’s speech.
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AJ Strata Takes a Stand Against Robert Stacy McCain
Blogosphere | Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:43:34 am PDT
Blogger “AJ Strata” takes a look at the writings of white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain, and is utterly repulsed (as any decent person should be): The Strata-Sphere » I Stand With Charles Johnson, And In Total Opposition To Robert Stacy McCain. I have seen the blog wars ongoing between ...
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Pat Buchanan: White Americans Are Losing
Politics | Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:00:10 am PDT
In his latest excrescence at the right wing’s craziest “news” site, Pat “Hitler Wasn’t So Bad” Buchanan says “Traditional” Americans are losing their nation. And by “traditional,” Buchanan means “white.” It’s mind-boggling that a disgusting person like Pat Buchanan hasn’t been made a pariah by the right wing. No wonder the American ...
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Not a Good Day for the GOP
Politics | Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:25:53 am PDT
There’s very bad news for the Republican Party in a new Washington Post/ABC News poll: the GOP seems to have almost totally lost the confidence of the American public. Republicans in Washington can barely contain their glee at the turn of President Obama’s political fortunes in the first nine months ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:29:18 pm PDT
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Caltech Study: CO2 At Highest Level in 15 Million Years
Environment | Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:52:28 pm PDT
A new study by Caltech scientists led by geochemist Aradhna Tripati shows that there hasn’t been this much carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere for at least 15 Million Years. “The last time carbon dioxide levels were apparently as high as they are today and were sustained at those levels, ...
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Welcome to the Jungle
Weird | Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:04:18 pm PDT
Rush Limbaugh mocks children who’ve died from the H1N1 virus. [Video] Glenn Beck mocks the idea of volunteering to help your community: [Video] And at the official Facebook page of the Republican National Committee, “Ryan” mocks black people who voted for Barack Obama: Gas station humor. | Facebook Ryan wrote14 hours ago As I was ...
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Meet Robert Stacy McCain, Neo-Confederate Wacko Extraordinaire
Blogosphere | Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:45:05 pm PDT
Sergey Romanov, a contributor to a blog called “Holocaust Controversies” that normally focuses on debunking Holocaust deniers, has a scathing post about white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain (who also writes for Pajamas Media and Hot Air’s Green Room), with examples from the messages posted by McCain on Usenet: Meet ...
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South Carolina GOP Chairmen: Jim DeMint is Like a Wealthy Jew
US News | Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:58:32 pm PDT
Two county chairmen of the South Carolina Republican Party, Edwin O. Merwin Jr. and James S. Ulmer Jr., have an editorial in yesterday’s edition of the Times and Democrat newspaper defending Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC). But with an antisemitic defense like Merwin and Ullmer’s, who needs critics? DeMint watches out for all ...
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Video: The Arctic Icecap is Not 'Recovering'
Environment | Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:00:07 pm PDT
Here’s Peter Sinclair’s video on the scientific evidence showing that the decline in the Arctic icecap is very real, is not due to “natural causes,” and is not reversing (as several people tried to argue in recent LGF threads on climate change). On the contrary, in the past two years ...
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Friedersdorf: Rush the Race-Baiter
US News | Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:25:30 pm PDT
At the Daily Beast, Conor Friedersdorf makes an excellent point about the well-documented racially charged comments of a certain right wing deity talk show host: Rush the Race-Baiter. I share a powerful distaste for characters like Al Sharpton, who deliberately play on the racial anxieties of Americans. As one of ...
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More Evidence of Obama's Nefarious Plot to Indoctrinate the Children of America
Images | Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:02:41 pm PDT
Still more photographic proof that Barack Obama has the diabolical power to brainwash young children.
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Left Wing Group Hoaxes the Media
Media | Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:41:10 am PDT
Several major news organizations fell for a hoax today, when a left wing group put out a phony press release announcing that the US Chamber of Commerce had dropped its opposition to the climate change legislation currently in the US Senate: CNBC, Reuters fall for climate hoax. An email press ...
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Bill Maher: Anti-Vaccine Kook
Health | Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:08:05 am PDT
Bill Maher utterly embarrasses himself in this clip from his “Real Time” show, with ignorant comments about vaccination (yes, Maher is an anti-vaxer) you have to hear to believe. According to Maher, vaccination is not proven to work scientifically. (Do I need to point out how completely false this is?) [Video] ScienceBlogger ...
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African Churches Torture, Murder Children for 'Witchcraft'
Religion | Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:09:42 am PDT
Here’s a disturbing story from the Associated Press on the rise of Pentecostal-flavored fundamental Christianity in Africa, and the horrific consequences for some young children accused of witchcraft: Churches involved in torture, murder of thousands of African children denounced as witches. His family pastor had accused him of being a ...
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Overnight Beach Pizza
Open | Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 11:33:59 pm PDT
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Sarah Palin Posts Resume on LinkedIn
Politics | Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:28:33 pm PDT
Is this really Sarah Palin’s resumé? Sarah Palin - LinkedIn. It looks like it really is. Jaw meet floor. Sarah Palin’s Experience Governor State of Alaska (Government Agency; Government Administration industry) December 2006 — June 2009 (2 years 7 months) Vice Presidential Candidate 2008 Election (Government Administration industry) 2008 — 2008 (less than a year) Chairperson Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation ...
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The Arctic Ice is Getting Younger
Environment | Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:27:15 pm PDT
Uh oh. Arctic ice to vanish in summer. LONDON, England (CNN) — New data released Thursday suggests that the Arctic Ocean will be “largely ice free” during summer within a decade. The report, complied by the UK-based Catlin Arctic Survey and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), is the latest research into ...
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Sunday Night Lounge
Private | Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 6:27:39 pm PDT
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a salubrious 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. That opens a ...
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Did Somebody Say 'Registration?'
Open | Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 4:02:22 pm 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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Rush Limbaugh in His Own Words
US News | Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 3:29:37 pm PDT
As the apologists all over the right wing blogs continue to focus on one or two disputed quotes, here’s a lengthy collection of racist and/or race-baiting quotes from Saint Rush Limbaugh — all of them verified, cited and attributed: Limbaugh: My racial views? You mean, my belief in a colorblind ...
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Oath Keepers: Very Bad Craziness
US News | Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 1:33:27 pm PDT
The Las Vegas Review Journal’s Alan Maimon reports on the rise of a very disturbing movement fueled by conspiracy theories and anti-government bad craziness: READY TO REVOLT: Oath Keepers pledges to prevent dictatorship in United States. Launched in March by Las Vegan Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers bills itself as a ...
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Racist Doc Appears As 'Expert' on Glenn Beck Show
US News | Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:36:31 am PDT
On July 23 of this year, one of our threads was titled Disgusting Racist of the Day, and featured this ugly racist image circulated on a tea party mailing list by “activist” Dr. David McKalip. Well, look who turned up as a “medical expert” on Glenn Beck’s Friday show attacking health ...
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Robert Stacy McCain Ankle-Bites Again
Blogosphere | Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:23:42 am PDT
Speaking of racists (we were, weren’t we? well, we soon will be anyway), white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain is ranting like a rabid weasel about me again (this is his 25th or 26th post full of deranged insults), and this time he’s viciously attacking Barrett Brown too. He breaks ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:21:55 pm PDT
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Hot Air Comments of the Day
Blogosphere | Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 5:18:07 pm PDT
Time for tonight’s edition of the most extreme, hateful comments posted at the Hot Air blog owned by Michelle Malkin and run by Ed Morrissey and “Allahpundit.” We’ll start off with a few comments from a thread about calls to impeach President Obama. Ed Morrissey seems to believe this is ...
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Saturday Afternoon Music: Antoine Dufour and Tommy Gauthier, 'Mellow Deep Art'
Music | Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:47:53 pm PDT
Antoine Dufour and Tommy Gauthier play “Mellow Deep Art,” from their latest album Still Strings. (Here it is at the iTunes Store.) [Video] Here’s an Amazon MP3 widget with which you can listen to samples from the rest of the album; it’s really good. [Video]
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Rush Limbaugh: I'm a Victim
Opinion | Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:10:54 pm PDT
Here’s Rush Limbaugh in the Wall Street Journal, attempting to divert attention away from his numerous documented racist and race-baiting remarks: Rush Limbaugh: The Race Card, Football and Me. For some reason, he thinks a good way to defend himself is to attack Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Jackson and ...
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LGF: The Offender
Weird | Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 6:47:13 am PDT
I’ve finally made it. I’m an “offender” in this Rush Limbaugh idolizing article at the far right Media Research Center. My life is complete. UPDATE at 10/17/09 8:04:45 am: Racist and race-baiting quotes from Rush Limbaugh that are sourced and verified: “Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:23:38 pm PDT
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White Supremacist Blogger Posts Obscene Attack
Blogosphere | Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:31:38 pm PDT
Here’s a comment posted yesterday by white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain at loony wingnut blog Protein Wisdom, in a thread started by one of McCain’s supporters: Kathleen Parker’s top picks for GOP women [Darleen Click]: Comment by Robert Stacy McCain on 10/15 @ 10:48 pm # Let me put it ...
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Nontroversy of the Day: Dede Scozzafava
Blogosphere | Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:47:21 pm PDT
People have been emailing, trying to get me to be outraged and upset about Dede Scozzafava. But I’m starting to just tune out on the Nontroversy of the Day, sorry. There’s only so much wingnut craziness I can be expected to pay attention to. UPDATE at 10/16/09 6:51:10 pm: Michelle Malkin, of course, ...
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Onion: Financial Expert Offers Obsessive Recession Tips
Humor | Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:29:14 pm PDT
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Video: John McCain Quotes Chairman Mao
Politics | Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:49:03 am PDT
As Glenn Beck does his best impression of Joseph McCarthy and tries to get White House Communications Director Anita Dunn hounded out of office for quoting Mao Zedong in a speech at St. Andrews Episcopal School, all I can say is, “Uh oh.” [Video] (Hat tip: Dave Weigel.) UPDATE at 10/16/09 12:13:05 pm: Oh ...
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Louisiana Justice of the Peace Lets Black People Use His Bathroom
US News | Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:10:47 am PDT
Louisiana justice of the peace Keith Bardwell has refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple, but denies that he’s a racist. He’s just concerned. About ... you know ... the children. To prove that he’s a tolerant, non-racist kind of guy, Bardwell notes that he has “piles and piles ...
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Alleged New York Bomb Plotter Contacted by Al Qaeda
US News | Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:48:07 am PDT
Afghan immigrant Najibullah Zazi, accused of planning a series of bombings in New York, may have been in contact with the head of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. NEW YORK – The airport shuttle driver accused of plotting a bombing in New York had contacts with al-Qaida that went nearly all ...
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Obama's Nefarious Plot Revealed
Images | Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:59:14 am PDT
Photographic proof that Barack Obama has the diabolical power to brainwash young children. (Hat tip: Killgore Trout.)
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Bad Craziness on Toast
Weird | Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:42:28 am PDT
I don’t know what to say about this one except, “Wow.” This is how bad the craziness is getting. (The link goes to Google’s cache, to avoid sending traffic to this hate site masquerading as a “game.”) United States Of Earth.
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Majority of Kansans Support Teaching Creationism in Public Schools
Science | Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:56:12 am PDT
Despite the huge battle over the teaching of “intelligent design” creationism in 2005, a new survey shows that the majority of the people of Kansas are still in favor of teaching creationism in public school science classes: FHSU Learns ‘What Kansans Really Think’. A majority of respondents, 53 percent, said ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:29:24 pm PDT
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Hot Air Comments of the Day
Blogosphere | Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:47:29 pm PDT
In tonight’s edition of the most extreme comments posted at Hot Air, we’ll take a look through the comments in just one thread, Allahpundit’s post about the fourth grader who asked Obama, “Why do people hate you?” This one really whipped up the crowd into a frenzy. (And thanks to ...
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Video: Glenn Beck Weeps to Paul Anka
Weird | Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:00:26 pm PDT
Glenn Beck waxes nostalgic for those long-lost days of yesteryear, when people sat around listening to cheesy Paul Anka songs and watching Coke commercials, and breaks down weeping. [Video] The hero of the right wing: a guy who breaks down in tears when he hears a Paul Anka song.
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Thursday Afternoon Open
Open | Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:23:53 pm PDT
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Our Friends the Turks
World | Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:32:24 pm PDT
Another eruption of antisemitism from Turkey. JERUSALEM, Oct 15 (Reuters) - A Turkish television drama series which depicts an Israeli soldier shooting dead a Palestinian baby, strained already tense relations on Thursday between Israel and Turkey, a strategic Muslim ally. Previously close ties between the Jewish state and Turkey, a secular ...
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What Right Wing Extremists?
US News | Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:24:27 pm PDT
As the anti-Obama rhetoric keeps getting more and more insane, we can expect to see more incidents like this. (10-15) 11:40 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — A Del Norte County man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in San Francisco on charges that he threatened in an e-mail to ...
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Hilarious Rush Limbaugh Post of the Day
Weird | Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:42:08 am PDT
Today’s jaw-dropping, insanely over the top exercise in Rush Limbaugh idolization is from RedState.com: Tonight ... We Are All Rush Limbaugh. Includes the ubiquitous Martin Niemöller quote (no right wing rant is complete without it) because as we all know, dropping a super-rich race-baiting far right radio host from a ...
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Robert Stacy McCain and the Fall of the Conservative Movement
Blogosphere | Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:54:03 am PDT
Here’s an excellent piece by Barrett Brown, on white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain, and what it says about the right wing blogosphere that they’ve almost all lined up (including Pajamas Media, the company I helped found) to support a vile racist creep like this: Robert Stacy McCain and the ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:28:16 pm PDT
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Wednesday Night Lounge
Private | Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 6:06:10 pm PDT
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a wind-up 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. That opens a ...
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Limbaugh Gets the Axe
Sports | Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:00:31 pm PDT
Race-baiting talk show host Rush Limbaugh is being dropped from the group bidding to purchase the St. Louis Rams football team. LOS ANGELES — The group bidding to purchase the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League is prepared to do so without the financial backing of Rush Limbaugh, ...
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Hot Air Comments of the Day
Blogosphere | Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:50:05 pm PDT
Here’s our latest installment of a new recurring feature — the most disgusting comments recently posted at Hot Air, and not deleted or even disapproved of by the “moderators.” There’s an endless stream of this kind of hate speech at Hot Air, and I don’t expect we’ll run out of ...
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Jerome Corsi: Very Bad Craziness on Fox News
Weird | Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:24:23 am PDT
He’s a Birther, he promotes insane conspiracy theories at World Net Daily, he appears frequently on Alex Jones’s whacked out radio show, he’s appeared more than once on the white supremacist radio show Political Cesspool — and last night he got two whole segments on Fox News’s Sean Hannity show ...
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Video: Paulians Rant at Lindsey Graham
Politics | Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:19:45 am PDT
A town hall meeting with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) turned into an angry confrontation with raging Paulians, in which Graham said (as the audience hooted and shouted at him), “We’re not going to be the party of angry white guys.” Might be too late for that, Sen. Graham. [Video] Here’s an article ...
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Ron Paul Acolytes: The Jews Are Behind LGF
Weird | Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:56:46 am PDT
I’m not sure where they get the idea that anyone is “terrified” of them (it’s actually more like “disgustedly amused”), but the Ron Paulbots at Daily Paul are on to us! Little Green Footballs comments section terrified of Paulites taking over new GOP website. You comment jogged my memeory. On October ...
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GOP.com: Web-Savvy Students Not a Must
Humor | Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:30:56 am PDT
The new gop.com site is a gift of comedy that keeps on giving. Digging around in the recent Google cache of the site, we find the page where prospective interns can apply, with this heaping serving of irony: The New Media division is responsible for ensuring there is an effective ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:22:43 pm PDT
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Glenn Beck Compares Fox News to Jews During the Holocaust
Weird | Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:05:45 pm PDT
Yes, he really did. In Beck’s latest insane rant, Obama’s Communications Director Anita Dunn plays Hitler, and other news organizations play the bystanders who let the Nazis get away with genocide. [Video]
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Tuesday Night Music: Keith Jarrett, 'Tokyo Solo'
Music | Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:38:02 pm PDT
Keith Jarrett almost launches into orbit in this improvisational piece from his classic DVD, Tokyo Solo. [Video]
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'What Up' Goes Away
Politics | Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:58:33 pm PDT
Michael Steele’s blog has changed its name from “What Up?” to “Change the Game.” Too late, Michael. I think the original name has already been noticed. And I thought “change” was now a dirty word ... wasn’t it?
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Hot Air Comments of the Day
Blogosphere | Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:54:47 pm PDT
Today at Hot Air, calls for assassination, civil war, and “burning the GOP to the ground:” Hot Air » Blog Archive » Breaking: Snowe defects on committee vote. Can we shoot these idiots now or do we have to wait for them to totally screw us over first? Old Hippie Vet ...
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Wingnut Blogs Greet GOP.com Launch with Deafening Silence
Blogosphere | Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:52:49 pm PDT
So what does the wingnut blogosphere have to say about the totally embarrassing launch of the GOP’s new website that’s not really a website? Hot Air: nothing. Michelle Malkin: zero. Ace of Spades HQ: zip. Gateway Pundit: zilch. Power Line: nada. (Don’t worry — I’m sure they’ll have something to say once they’ve settled on the ...
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Quote of the Day
Weird | Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:40:06 pm PDT
From RNC chairman Michael Steele’s hip new “What Up?” blog: The Internet has been around a while, now. UPDATE at 10/13/09 1:48:50 pm: And as soon as I post the quote of the day, we have competition — also from Michael Steele: It’s not even really a web site. [Video]
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Onion: Obama's New Diplomatic Initiative
Humor | Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:27:37 pm PDT
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GOP Posts Gmail Password/Login on New Site
Technology | Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:42:51 pm PDT
You’ve got to be kidding. GOP Posts Password, Admin Instructions on New Web Site. The fail just keeps getting more failish. Also see: New GOP Site: NSFW
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Video: Hezbollah Caught Red-Handed Smuggling Weapons
Middle East | Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:33:37 pm PDT
Just posted at the IDF’s YouTube page: On October 12, 2009, there was an explosion at a Hezbollah weapons storehouse in Tayr Filsay, in southern Lebanon. This aerial footage, taken shortly after the explosion, shows Hezbollah operatives closing down the area around the warehouse, driving in two trucks and removing ...
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Fired Head of Texas Forensics Panel: 'Perry Aides Pressured Me'
US News | Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:13:42 pm PDT
The Chicago Tribune’s Steve Mills has more on the unfolding scandal of Texas Governor Rick Perry’s apparent attempt to shut down an investigation into the execution of a man who was probably innocent: Former head of Texas forensics panel probing 1991 fire says he felt pressured by Gov. Perry aides. ...
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White House Authorizes More Support Troops for Afghanistan
World | Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:33:02 am PDT
The rumors that President Obama would cut and run from Afghanistan appear to have been greatly exaggerated. President Obama announced in March that he would be sending 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But in an unannounced move, the White House has also authorized — and the Pentagon is deploying — ...
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Palestinians Angry at Obama
US News | Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:09:37 am PDT
The rumors that President Obama would throw Israel under the bus appear to have been greatly exaggerated. Palestinian moderates say hope in President Obama has “evaporated.” That’s the damning message contained in a memo circulated among the top leadership of the Palestinian faction Fatah, the faction which is led by the ...
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Is Gov. Rick Perry Suppressing an Investigation Into a Possible Wrongful Execution?
US News | Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:00:25 am PDT
Is Texas Governor Rick Perry trying to quash an investigation into whether an innocent man was executed? The evidence is mounting. (CNN) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry has removed a fourth member of a state commission charged with investigating claims that an innocent man may have been executed, his office ...
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New GOP Site: NSFW
Politics | Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:28:13 am PDT
Someone please tell me that Michael Steele’s “blog” on the newly redesigned GOP website isn’t really named “What Up?” And even worse, the new website violates one of the cardinal rules of web design: web pages should never make sound without the visitor’s consent. The GOP home page has a little ...
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Anti-AGW Propaganda Shot Down Again
Environment | Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:34:28 am PDT
Time for an update on one of the latest claims by climate change deniers — that the “hockey stick” graph demonstrating dramatic global warming has been shown to be a “lie.” Well, it turns out that there was some dishonesty involved here, but it wasn’t on the side of the climate ...
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Birther Queen Fined $20K for Misconduct
Weird | Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:24:28 am PDT
The queen bee of the Birther “movement” (no, not the shrieking harpy, although the name applies pretty well in this case too) has been hit with a $20,000 fine for her idiotic frivolous lawsuits. In an order today, California attorney Orly Taitz has been sanctioned $20,000 by U.S. District Court ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:27:38 pm PDT
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Monday Night Playlist: Keith Jarrett, Porcupine Tree, Ty Tabor
Music | Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:23:39 pm PDT
Three newly released recordings that I highly recommend, in three very different genres. If you like what you hear, click through to Amazon to buy these albums in CD or downloadable MP3 format, and you’ll help support LGF by doing so. [Video]
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The Shrieking Harpy Shrieks Again
Blogosphere | Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:10:12 pm PDT
Cover your ears, dear readers, because the shrieking harpy is shrieking again! Newsmax contributor Pamela Geller’s latest illiterate rant accuses me of “demonizing the free men fighting the scourge of Jew hate, muhammadanism, sharia law and Islamic supremacism” (whew, that’s a mouthful). (Here are some more pictures of these courageous “free men” ...
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Video: WH Communications Director Dunn Rips Fox News
Politics | Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:27:46 pm PDT
White House Communications Director Anita Dunn doesn’t hold anything back in this interview with Howard Kurtz, blasting Fox News for being “the communications arm of the Republican party.” Dunn also comments on right wing celebrations over America’s loss of the Olympics bid, and the knee-jerk negativity toward Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize. [Video] ...
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Yon: A Memorial Service in Holland
World | Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:14:24 pm PDT
Michael Yon attends Holland’s memorial for the 65th anniversary of the Allied liberation from Nazi occupation, with lots of interesting photographs as always: Market Garden.
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Pamela Geller Praises English Defense League, Posts Photo of Nazi Salutes
World | Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:18:44 am PDT
Raving “anti-jihad” blogger Pamela Geller posts pictures from the latest violent demonstration in Manchester by the skinheads of the English Defense League (an offshoot of the neo-Nazi British National Party), and praises the thugs, of course: Anti-Islamisation Demonstrators Confronted by Fascists - Atlas Shrugs. They arrest Brits fighting for their ...
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NFL Players Opposed to Rush Limbaugh Bid for St. Louis Rams
Sports | Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:16:10 am PDT
ESPN reports that the executive director of the NFL Players Union has written a letter to the union opposing the purchase of the St. Louis Rams by Talk show host Rush Limbaugh. NFL Players executive director DeMaurice Smith on Saturday made a move to solidify the union against a bid ...
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Texas Social Studies 'Experts' Fail
US News | Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:47:58 am PDT
Two of the far right religious fanatics appointed to the Texas social studies curriculum review board by their fellow creationist fanatics are David Barton (of the theocratic Wallbuilders group) and Rev. Peter Marshall (who operates Peter Marshall Ministries in Massachusetts). The Texas Freedom Network has a look at the incredible ...
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Tea Partiers Attacking the GOP Leadership
Politics | Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:45:13 am PDT
By supporting the tea parties with a nod and a wink, the GOP may have created a monster: Tea partiers turn on GOP leadership. Whether it’s the loose confederation of Washington-oriented groups that have played an organizational role or the state-level activists who are channeling grass roots anger into action ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:35:40 pm PDT
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Dobson: 'America Is In Greater Danger Than At Any Time Since the Civil War'
Politics | Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 6:19:39 pm PDT
Here’s evangelical author and radio host James Dobson accepting the Ronald Reagan Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual meeting of the secretive right wing group known as the Council for National Policy. Dobson invokes anti-government and apocalyptic imagery to attack President Obama, telling the audience that America is “in greater ...
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Tonight: Discovering Ardi
Science | Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 5:56:02 pm PDT
Airing tonight on the Discovery Channel at 9 pm (Eastern and Pacific), Discovering Ardi — a documentary on the investigation leading up to the historic announcement of the Ardipithecus ramidus fossils. Set your TiVos and your Eye TVs; this looks like a must-see. [Video] The scientific investigation began in the Ethiopian desert ...
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The Door Opens - Update: The Door Closes
Open | Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 2:54:32 pm PDT
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Anatomy of an Outrageous Outrage
Blogosphere | Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 2:11:26 pm PDT
You may recall a recent right wing blogosphere freak-out session led by Michelle Malkin, about a video of some kids at Bernice Young elementary school singing a song praising President Obama. The video was seized upon by Fox News, Glenn Beck, and even RNC chairman Michael Steele as an example of ...
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McCain Admits Sarah Palin Tension
Politics | Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:02:54 pm PDT
In an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, John McCain finally admits there was tension between his campaign manager Steve Schmidt and the Sarah Palin camp: McCain weighs in on Palin in 2012. He had to admit it because Schmidt forced his hand by saying recently that a Palin candidacy ...
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Tech Note: MP3 Audio in Comments
Technology | Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:23:49 am PDT
Stop the presses! New feature alert! OK, maybe you don’t need to actually stop any presses, but we have a new feature in the LGF Comment Engine: embedded MP3 files. It works just like the embedded video feature: you put the URL of an MP3 file on its own line in ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:13:48 pm PDT
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Saturday Night Lounge
Private | Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 8:46:42 pm PDT
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a sartorially satisfying Saturday 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 ...
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The Next Outrageous Outrage
Politics | Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 6:21:20 pm PDT
Here’s a preview of tomorrow’s right wing blogosphere/religious right (is there a difference?) Outrage of the Day: Obama tells gay rights group he will end ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’. Reporting from Washington - President Obama, speaking to the nation’s largest gay rights organization, pledged tonight to end the law prohibiting ...
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Video: Feeling Glenn Beck's Pain
Humor | Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:51:20 pm PDT
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Video: Samoan Tsunami
Video | Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 12:33:14 pm PDT
Scary video from a surveillance camera at the FBI’s office in Pago Pago, American Samoa, showing the tsunami rushing into the parking lot. [Video]
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Rep. Chaffetz on Fox News: Fear the Census
Politics | Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 10:24:01 am PDT
Here’s the latest Republican/Fox News attempt to scare people out of cooperating with the census: Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) says “tens of thousands” of census takers may be rapists and child molesters. [Video]
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:15:37 pm PDT
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Bill O'Reilly: Creationist
Weird | Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:24:54 pm PDT
[As Fox News runs the label: “Richard Dawkins - Atheist” over a pre-recorded, heavily edited interview...] Bill O’Reilly: Atheist. Atheist! You’re an atheist! And a fascist! You atheist! Richard Dawkins (atheist): But science is working on the problem... Bill O’Reilly (interrupting): [pictures of Jesus flash on the screen] So you hate Jesus! I ...
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Friday Night Lounge
Private | Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:29:19 pm PDT
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Friday Night Music: Andy McKee, 'Drifting'
Music | Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:07:04 pm PDT
An incredible solo acoustic guitar performance titled “Drifting,” from Andy McKee’s highly recommended album Art of Motion. (Here it is at the iTunes Store.) [Video]
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Outrageous Outrage of the Day!
Blogosphere | Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:53:59 pm PDT
Michelle Malkin is saving us from the evil racist artwork choices of the Obamas, by noting that an abstract painting by African American artist Alma Thomas bears a strong resemblance to a collage by Henri Matisse — and labeling it plagiarism! Michelle Malkin » Do the Watusi: Art, imitation, and ...
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Georgia Bar Owner Lets His Inner Racist Out
Video | Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:04:26 pm PDT
You’re not going to believe this one. [Video]
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Redstate CEO: Nobel Prize Has an Affirmative Action Quota
Blogosphere | Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:14:19 am PDT
Redstate.com CEO Erick Erickson gets right down into the gutter. I did not realize the Nobel Peace Prize had an affirmative action quota for it, but that is the only thing I can think of for this news. There is no way Barack Obama earned it in the nominations period. ...
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A Peace Prize for the President
World | Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:33:01 am PDT
Well, it’s still early in the morning on the west coast, but I think I already know what the outrage of the day will be in the right wing blogosphere: In Surprise, Nobel Peace Prize to Obama for Diplomacy. OSLO — President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:27:56 pm PDT
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Video: The Culture of Denial: Evolution, Global Warming, and Big Tobacco
Science | Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:58:49 pm PDT
Last Saturday in a thread about climate change, I wrote: Again, I’m struck by the similarity between the techniques of global warming deniers and creationists; they both use cherry-picked data, they both make outrageous claims couched in pseudo-scientific language that sounds convincing to gullible people, they both compile lists of ...
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Michele Bachmann's School-Based Sex Clinics, The Sequel
Religion | Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:15:29 pm PDT
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) continues promoting her bizarre, obsessive “SCHOOL-BASED SEX CLINICS” distortions, in her latest crazy rant to the US House of Representatives. [Video]
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The Anti-Vaccination Epidemic
Health | Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:29:54 pm PDT
Somebody pinch me. I must be having a bad dream. There can’t be this many ignorant anti-vaccination parents playing chicken with the lives of their children: AP Poll: Third of parents oppose swine flu vaccine. ATLANTA – As the first wave of swine flu vaccine crosses the country, more than ...
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New Oklahoma Abortion Bill Challenged
US News | Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:32:26 pm PDT
In an attempt to threaten and scare women out of having abortions, Republicans in Oklahoma (Sen. Todd Lamb, R-Edmond, and Rep. Dan Sullivan, R-Tulsa) have created a new law that blatantly violates the state and federal constitutions, and requires physicians to provide the state with detailed personal information about women ...
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The Door Opens - Update: The Door Closes
Open | Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:03:05 pm PDT
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From Rural Georgia to the White House
US News | Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:17:17 am PDT
Whether you’re a supporter of the Obamas or not, this story in the New York Times is a fascinating and inspiring American tale: In First Lady’s Roots, a Complex Path From Slavery. WASHINGTON — In 1850, the elderly master of a South Carolina estate took pen in hand and painstakingly ...
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Pawlenty: Another GOP Creationist on the Rise
Politics | Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:18:56 am PDT
Iowa Republicans have picked creationist Governor Tim Pawlenty to headline the “Leadership for Iowa” event in Des Moines November 7. Note that Pawlenty isn’t content to simply believe in creationism himself; he wants to see it taught to everyone else’s children: Gov. Tim Pawlenty on Why He Supports Creationism. MR. BROKAW: ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:28:33 pm PDT
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Video: Birth of a Climate Denier Talking Point
Environment | Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:08:14 pm PDT
Peter Sinclair’s new video is a scathing exposé of the right wing’s deliberate distortion of a statement by climate modeler Mojib Latif — led by Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and George Will. [Video]
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Wednesday Night Lounge
Private | Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:23:14 pm PDT
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Spencer: Teaming Up with Euro-Supremacists Again
Weird | Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:10:22 pm PDT
Here’s an interesting piece at Loonwatch on anti-Muslim blogger Robert Spencer’s latest excursion into extreme right wing European politics: Robert Spencer: Teaming up with Euro-Supremacists Again. And yes, I do mean “anti-Muslim” — Spencer long ago crossed the line from simply criticizing radical Islamists to relentlessly demonizing all Muslims. And the ...
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Kindle International Edition Announced, Price Drop on US Version
Technology | Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:01:48 pm PDT
Amazon announced today that they’ve dropped the price on their terrific Kindle e-book reader by another $30, putting the new price at just $259. As I’ve written several times, this is one of my absolute favorite gadgets and I highly recommend it to anyone who loves to read. It’s like ...
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Decomposing Conspiracy Theory Lurches Back to Life
Blogosphere | Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:18:40 am PDT
Today’s headache-inducing episode of wingnut density is the revival of the rotting corpse of the “Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s books” conspiracy theory, after this blogger encountered Ayers at an airport and had a short, belligerent conversation with him — in which Ayers told her, “I wrote Dreams From My Father.” Of ...
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US Denies Funding to Iran Human Rights Group
World | Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:36:42 am PDT
The Obama administration has cut off funding for the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center: US cutoff of funding to Iran human rights cause signals shift. WASHINGTON - For the past five years, researchers in a modest office overlooking the New Haven green have carefully documented cases of assassination and torture ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:45:43 pm PDT
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Glenn Beck: 'Who's On the Other End of Obama's Blackberry?'
Weird | Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:14:28 pm PDT
Paranoia strikes deep into Glenn Beck’s heart, in an interview with the far right loons of Newsmax (who recently published an article advocating a military coup in the US): Glenn Beck: ‘God Help us all’. “I truly fear the groundwork — this is so far beyond Obama,” Beck says. “I ...
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Destroying George Will's Word-Counting Nonsense
Politics | Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:54:02 pm PDT
The University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Cognitive Research has a blog called Language Log, and they were ready for George Will’s ridiculous word-counting column: Fact-checking George F. Will, one more time. As a result of this previous experience, I had a first-person-counting script all ready to go, and it took ...
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Discovery Institute Pays for Propaganda
Science | Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:47:07 pm PDT
Just like the Council on American Islamic Relations, the dishonest creationists at the Discovery Institute are now reduced to paying PRNewsWire to disseminate their propaganda: Leading Darwinist Richard Dawkins Dodges Debates, Refuses to Defend Evolution. This is a good sign; it means these atavistic dissemblers are having trouble finding reputable news ...
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Video: Don't It Make My Green World Brown
Environment | Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:35:32 pm PDT
In every LGF thread related to climate change, people show up to float the absurd claim that CO2 is a good thing. We need more of it, not less. Those tricksy scientists are just lying to you again. You know how they are. You can’t trust 'em. Except that the scientists ...
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Tuesday Afternoon Lounge, with Geddan
Private | Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:58:29 pm PDT
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a tangential Tuesday 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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Still More Advertisers Bailing Out on Beck
Media | Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:16:39 pm PDT
Left wing group Color of Change has announced that 19 more major companies have pulled their advertisements from the Glenn Beck Comedy Hour. OAKLAND, Calif.—ColorOfChange.org has confirmed that 19 new companies whose ads aired recently during Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck program have asked Fox to stop their ads from ...
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Ready ... Set ... Now Count Those Words!
Politics | Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:55:56 am PDT
Here’s George Will, taking a break from distorting and misrepresenting climate science to promote the latest right wing talking point: Barack and Michelle Obama are malignant narcissists. Will proves this by counting words in their Copenhagen speeches. This isn’t simply a weak argument; it’s not an argument at all. It’s an ...
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About That New FTC Rule
Blogosphere | Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:39:58 am PDT
The Federal Trade Commission has new guidelines that will apply to bloggers who endorse products. An existing FTC rule that states product reviewers must reveal any connection they have with advertisers was extended to bloggers. Companies will often distribute free products to bloggers for their review, and sometimes advertisers offer ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:15:20 pm PDT
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And Now for the Lost Filmstrips of Father Carlos
Humor | Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:24:28 pm PDT
Cat juggling was only the beginning of the depravity. [Video]
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Karl Rove Endorses Creationist Florida Candidate Rubio
Politics | Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:13:47 pm PDT
Karl Rove came out today in support of Florida’s former state House Speaker Marco Rubio, in his bid to upset Governor Charlie Crist in the election for one of Florida’s Senate seats. It gives me no pleasure to report that, like almost every Republican politician, Marco Rubio is a creationist — ...
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Conservapedia's New and Improved Non-Commie Bible
Religion | Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:39:47 pm PDT
The far right fanatics who run “Conservapedia” have a new project: they’re planning to rewrite the Bible to get rid of all of that liberalism and socialism: Conservative Bible Project. Yes, really. Here’s an example of the kind of stuff they think needs to be excised from the all-new conservative Bible: ...
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Ahmadinejad Jewish? Not.
Weird | Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:30:40 pm PDT
Contrary to the report in the Telegraph (which spread like wildfire through the right wing blogosphere — but not at LGF because it smelled funny to me) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has no Jewish roots.
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Yon: Two Firefights, One Video
World | Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:50:39 am PDT
Michael Yon has a new report from Afghanistan, including a video clip: Two Firefights: One Video. [Video] This weekend we lost eight more soldiers in a firefight. I learned about it while they were still fighting, but did not report it until just before the media broke the story the next ...
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Democrats Turn the Tables, As Expected
Politics | Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:27:12 am PDT
The reaction from the right wing blogosphere (and from top GOP politicians and pundits) to America’s loss of the Olympic bid was a sheer disgrace, and Democrats, of course, are rushing to capitalize on it: Democrats: Republicans are rooting against America. During the Bush era, Republicans from Karl Rove to ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:21:25 pm PDT
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Sarah Palin's Ghostwriter Problem Discussed on 'Meet the Press'
Politics | Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 4:59:04 pm PDT
On this morning’s Meet the Press, Rachel Maddow brought up the connection of Sarah Palin’s ghostwriter, Lynn Vincent, with white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain — a connection first reported here at Little Green Footballs. Here’s the video clip and the transcript. MS. MADDOW: I, I do think that ...
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Sunday Afternoon Lounge
Private | Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 2:45:14 pm PDT
Here’s a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users, for a Socratic 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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Condell: The Arrogance of Clergy
Religion | Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 12:41:41 pm PDT
Pat Condell’s latest video is a brutally direct and very powerful indictment of organized religion. [Video]
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The Unveiling of Ardipithecus
Science | Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 9:46:08 am PDT
Carl Zimmer has a great post at The Loom on the historic announcement this week of the discovery of Ardipithecus: We Meet At Last. At first, Ardipithecus ramidus was yet another scrappy pre-Lucy fossil. The first report offered details about part of a 4.4 million-year-old jaw bone–a remarkable jaw bone, ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 11:14:42 pm PDT
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Video: Carl Sagan Gets Down with His Bad Self
Music | Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 9:20:11 pm PDT
I’m an unabashed fan of Carl Sagan. I’ve read all his books, some of them several times, and they’ve enriched my life more than I can express. This video is delightful and sad at the same time — a celebration of one of humanity’s great original intellects. [Video]
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Dan Riehl: Murdered Census Worker Had Teh Ghey
Blogosphere | Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:09:29 pm PDT
Dan “black kids fear me” Riehl is still continuing his obsessive campaign to smear murdered census worker Bill Sparkman. Now he’s latched onto a twisted fantasy that Sparkman was infected with teh ghey: Riehl World View: Bill ‘Fe Fe’ Sparkman Remembered For His Curls. What a pathetic, sick little human being ...
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Onion: Obamas Out of Touch with Americans
Humor | Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:11:03 pm PDT
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New Mind-Bending Hubble Images
Science | Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 12:45:35 pm PDT
Newly released images from the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys give us a look at two galaxies that are losing it. Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) allows astronomers to study an interesting and important phenomenon called ram pressure stripping that is so powerful, it is capable of ...
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Debunking the Latest Climate Denial Claim
Environment | Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 9:28:23 am PDT
Last week we suddenly saw a barrage of articles about the climate change “hockey stick” graph, with absurdly overheated headlines like this one at Britain’s Telegraph: How the global warming industry is based on one MASSIVE lie. Not just a lie, but a MASSIVE lie. Wow. That sounds really bad. The article ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:16:33 pm PDT
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Friday Night Blues: Joe Bonamassa, 'Stop'
Music | Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 7:35:17 pm PDT
Joe Bonamassa plays the living hell out of his BB King “Lucille” signature model guitar, in this track from his excellent new album The Ballad of John Henry. (Here is it at the iTunes Store.) [Video]
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The Door Opens - Update: The Door Closes
Open | Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 5:25:27 pm PDT
The glimmering door into the caverns of Lizardia has swung open 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 ...
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Michele Bachmann Introduces Ron Paul: 'He's Awesome!'
Politics | Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:10:17 pm PDT
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Twilight Zn) introduces Ron Paul in Minnesota: “He’s an awesome man!” [Video] Also see: Ron Paul and the John Birch Society LGF search: Ron Paul
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McCain's Senior Adviser: Palin Candidacy Would Be 'Catastrophic'
Politics | Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:31:38 pm PDT
Steve Schmidt, former top campaign strategist for John McCain, said today that if Sarah Palin becomes the GOP nominee for President in 2012, it would be “catastrophic” for the party. “I think that she has talents, but my honest view is that she would not be a winning candidate for ...
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America Loses - Right Wings Blogs Celebrate
Blogosphere | Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:59:29 am PDT
Michelle Malkin and her commenters (and many other right wing bloggers) are dancing and celebrating this morning, because America lost its bid for the Olympics: The noble “sacrifice” of Michelle Obama. This is where the rhetoric of “FAIL” leads — they’re openly celebrating when America loses, just because Barack Obama is ...
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Video: Gilad Shalit Alive
Middle East | Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:30:00 am PDT
I must admit this is a real surprise; after three years I was very afraid that kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was dead: Video Shows Captive Israeli Soldier in Good Health. [Video]
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Oh Noes! Even Big Bird's Losing It!
Humor | Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 5:45:43 am PDT
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:11:03 pm PDT
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The Oldest 'Human' Relative Yet Discovered
Science | Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:02:04 pm PDT
“Missing link” is really the wrong term to use for this newly-announced fossil discovery (it implies a single link between humans and their ape-like ancestors, when the truth is far more complex and fluid), but if it will set creationists’ heads spinning I’ll accept it: Oldest ‘Human’ Skeleton Found — ...
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Video: All Wet on Sea Level
Environment | Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:06:09 pm PDT
Peter Sinclair has another excellent “remixed” video (an improved version of an earlier release) on what scientists know about rising sea levels — and the deliberate misrepresentations being promoted by the anti-AGW crowd. [Video]
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Thursday Afternoon Music: Mark Minelli, 'Murder in the Streets'
Music | Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:43:21 pm PDT
Here’s a new artist with a great voice and intriguing compositions, Mark Minelli. This tune is “Murder in the Streets,” from his debut album Gift Horse. [Video] Here’s Mark’s MySpace page, where you can listen to more of his music.
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The Dawkins Colbert Experience
Science | Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:09:20 pm PDT
Here’s evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins on the Colbert Report, promoting his new book The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (which I give my highest recommendation). Comedy Central Video
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Michele Bachmann's Sex Clinics
Weird | Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:18:23 am PDT
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) announces the latest far right fever swamp fantasy: the health care reform bill is going to allow the demonic Planned Parenthood to set up ... I hope you’re sitting down ... sex clinics in the schools of America! With free abortions for 13-year olds! What’s worse than ...
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Glenn Beck Breaks New Ground in Creepiness
Media | Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:20:41 am PDT
On the verge of weeping, Glenn Beck launches into one of his most bizarre rants yet, blaming godless atheists for everything wrong in America. And I do mean everything. [Video] UPDATE at 10/1/09 10:44:06 am: Beck claims that “In God We Trust” has been removed from US coins, but of course he’s wrong. ...
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A Most Excellent Mockery
Humor | Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:10:07 am PDT
A very funny send-up of one of the worst Hunter S. Thompson imitations ever to disgrace the Interwebs (ineptly written by racist blogger Robert Stacy McCain): That’s not a Doctor of Journalism. This is a Doctor of Journalism.* Our arrival was badly timed. Most of the pigs from The American ...
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Fisking Spencer
Opinion | Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:29:46 am PDT
Little Bulldogs has an excellent post exposing the relentless anti-Muslim bigotry of the owner of Jihad Watch: Fisking Robert Spencer. I wrote on Monday how MPACUK was trying to turn the peaceful praying of a few thousand Muslims at Capitol Hill into a political event. Now it’s the turn of ...
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Overnight Ocean Thread
Open | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:19:20 pm PDT
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