From: Monsieur d’Nalgar
To:
Sam Stein
Subject: Today’s award…
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:51:44 -0700
It’s been a while since I awarded a “You Bastard!” prize for overt nincompoopery by one of the morning-show bobble-heads, one of the screeching…
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Monday, March 12, 1906
Mr. Clemens comments on the killing of six hundred Moros — Men, women and children — In a crater bowl near Jolo in the Philippines — Our troops commanded by General Wood — Contrasts this “battle” …
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By Sumbul Ali-Karamali, posted at
HuffingtonPost.com September 3, 2010.
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Hasn’t the whole notion of shariah in America gotten a bit out of control? No, it hasn’t — it’s gotten hugely, obscenely, ignorantly out of control. How many of those…
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Well, dear friends, it’s a lot worse than we thought… I was blissfully ignorant about the threat to America until today, when an angry reader of my recent “
Gristle” post challenged anyone who is not fearful of Muslims…
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November 4, 2010
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBGQhJDlys0[/tube]
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCAe9SEH9SQ[/tube]
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1RHn1WAkbk[/tube]
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGPIlQn3NYs[/tube]
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSv5k7XmxQE[/tube]
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI86SteM2FE[/tube]
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vQSRGHJxcg[/tube]
…and that’s about the sum total I can find of my songs on YouTube. There’s probably more from Mary Black and Maura O’Connell etc., but I can’t be bothered.…
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Whoa: I found this funky-but-great version of Seamie O’Dowd, Mairtin O’Connor, and Cathal Hayden playing Cedars of Lebanon. They are three of the greatest living folk/trad musicians in Ireland, and tour Europe a lot in this formation.
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22xDMXEo0Dw[/tube]
Cedars Of …
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[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae2dEWoKsxA[/tube]
A song called Alice in Jericho, where Lebanon/Beirut is the actual subject. The singer is Ireland’s Seamie O’Dowd. The venue is some jazz club in Australia, not sure where.
Alice In Jericho
Now, the natural part of a Nazarene…
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