Jul 18 2010

Refudiating Muslims

 Geoffrey Dunn’s HuffingtonPost post (is that redundant?) today: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/palins-bigoted-twitter-cal_b_650562.html or http://huff.to/a69dg9 or http://tinyurl.com/32dx5vc Palin’s Bigoted Twitter Calls on Muslims to “Refudiate” Echoing the bigoted and right-wing contortions of the National Republican Trust PAC and disgraced Tea Party leader Mark Williams,…  [more]

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Jul 17 2010

You know who

 Robert Fisk on Fadlallah again, this time on our present season of grovelling whenever “anything might offend you know who.” http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-theyre-all-grovelling-and-you-can-guess-the-reason-2028720.html or http://bit.ly/d9tSpU or http://tinyurl.com/32lxjd8 Last paragraph: Looking back, the Obama grovelling started in that famous Cairo reach-out-to-the-Muslim-world speech, when…  [more]

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Jul 16 2010

Robert Plant and the Band of Joy

 She Who Must Be Obeyed and I drove to Little Rock last night to see Robert Plant and the Band of Joy perform at Robinson Center Music Hall.  Great Show!  The latest incarnation of Band of Joy is Robert Plant…  [more]

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Jul 11 2010

We did it right

 Friends: Over the past few days, there has been some interesting debate going on about the relative merits of the ‘spy swap’ concluded with the Russians.  I have my own views of the case, and thought I’d share them with…  [more]

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Jul 10 2010

Fisk on Fadlallah

 Robert Fisk’s commentary on CNN’s firing of Octavia Nasr for a tweet praising Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah (who died this week): Poor old CNN goes on getting more cowardly by the hour. That’s why no one cares about…  [more]

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Jul 04 2010

Patriot’s Dream

 Words and music by Arlo Guthrie: Living now here but for fortune Placed by fate’s mysterious schemes Who’d believe that we’re the ones asked To try to rekindle the patriot’s dreams Arise sweet destiny, time runs short All of your…  [more]

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Jul 04 2010

It was a festive occasion

By Jacques d’Nalgar, Fourth of July, 2010   This I write, Octavius Fuluvim, humble servant of our Lord Jesus Christ, on the august occasion of a rare conjunction of our weekly gathering of Roman believers with the empire’s annual festivities…  [more]

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