Archives for the 'America' Category
Sgt. Jill Needs You
Published on 22 Jan 2008 at 10:48 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under America, Iraq, military.
Gateway with the update and art on Sgt. Jill Stevens’ Miss America battle.
Yeah, Well
Published on 20 Jan 2008 at 11:57 am.
10 Comments.
Filed under America, Canada, Guantanamo.
Canada removes the United States from its list of nations that practice torture. NYT:
What Is Hip
Published on 20 Jan 2008 at 8:15 am.
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Filed under America, culture, media.
Sunday morning deep thots compliments of West Coast hipster Driscoll, who weighs in on Kelly and Steyn re Sinatra, Wayne, Hope vs Fonda etal in The Birth of Cool. Whether or not Sinatra succumbed to irony or not could make someone’s dissertation, though. Kelly, in case you don’t know him, was very cool, unironic, made [...]
Hills vs. Hill
Published on 8 Jan 2008 at 9:26 am.
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Filed under America, pols.
In accordance with our quaint homespun practice of amplifying the electoral power of remote hill-dwellers, here’s Dixville Notch. CNN:
Pond View
Published on 8 Jan 2008 at 9:04 am.
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Filed under America, pols.
Brit longs for representation in taxing Yank election. Simon Heffer at UK Telegraph :
Bikini Girl with Machine Gun
Published on 3 Jan 2008 at 10:43 pm.
6 Comments.
Filed under America, crime, sex.
Forgets it’s just a calendar. Wannabe Miss Arizona, illegally bottle-blonde, charged with kidnapping, menacing boyfriend. There’s gunplay. It’s Tarantino-worthy, even if no one got splattered:
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Blood Dividend
Published on 3 Jan 2008 at 10:39 am.
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Filed under America, Iraq, military, pols.
Wretchard and his commenters on the latest grim milestone: plummeting casualty figures hit lowest three-month total to date. Fewer Americans and Iraqis are dying. The American and Iraqi deaths and injuries in the first half of 2007 bought this calm. Security within which political solutions may be arrived at is achieved in this manner. It is [...]
Queer Eye for the Naked Chick
Published on 3 Jan 2008 at 10:01 am.
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Filed under America, culture.
The beauty and genius of reality TV has always been how it launches relatively normal people … which is to say petty, conniving, weak and tantrum-prone … into utterly unreal situations and pits them against each other like lab rats. Subcategories include career-launch reality TV and socially responsible reality TV.
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That Turn The Other Cheek Thing
Published on 10 Dec 2007 at 10:19 pm.
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Filed under America, God, guns.
Has its limits:
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Basement-Dwelling Mushrooms and Higher Order Plant Life
Published on 29 Nov 2007 at 11:29 am.
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Filed under America, pols.
Michelle spots more plants at the CNN/YouTube GOP debate.
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Yanqui Imperialistas, Wot?
Published on 25 Nov 2007 at 8:40 am.
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Filed under America, Britain, God.
Archbishop of Canterbury thinks we’re worse than the Brits.
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You Gotta Believe!
Published on 25 Nov 2007 at 7:46 am.
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Filed under America, GWOT.
Whether you’re going to the mall, church or the coffee shop this morning, look at the people on either side of you. Chances are they believe our government knew about 9/11 in advance and decided to ignore the threat, and is concealing the truth about UFOs and the JFK assassination. Or if they don’t exactly believe those [...]
G.I. Jill
Published on 24 Nov 2007 at 5:09 pm.
2 Comments.
Filed under America, guns, military, sex.
Sgt. Stevens for Miss America. Hey, how come they don’t have a “machine gun” contest, anyway? It is Miss America after all. How about a “bathing suit machine gun“ contest? This is still America, last time I checked.
Traditional Thanksgiving
Published on 24 Nov 2007 at 10:03 am.
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Euro-giving, while the sentiment is tremendously appreciated, can only ever be a pale imitation of the real thing. More homegrown TG here.
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Brit Go Home!
Published on 23 Nov 2007 at 4:37 pm.
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Filed under America, Britain.
“Over-sexed, over-paid, over here.” That was the gripe when Yanks were saving Brit bacon. Well, clearly the sex part of our insidious plan worked. Now Surber reports some Brit who earns U.S. dollars over here is sqawking about our presumed efforts to undermine political institutions over there. Brit historian is not only fast and loose with the presumptions, a little vague on [...]
A Fine Euro-Giving
Published on 23 Nov 2007 at 8:14 am.
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Filed under America, Europe.
We all put on our best American clothes, kept our best American manners, ate lots of turkey and green bean casserole, and didn’t knock too many things over. Our Euro pals all showed up. The Frogman said grace. There was a fine bottle of Rijksuniversiteit Groningen on the table, a Che with Mickey Mouse ears centerpiece, the weather was [...]
Euro-Giving
Published on 18 Nov 2007 at 10:09 pm.
23 Comments.
Filed under America, Europe.
Deep thot, Vanguard of the Commentariat:
I sort of like the way that one day a year turkey is the symbol of excess capitalist gluttony by red state morons whose forebears oppressed Indians, but the rest of the year it is the low fat diet smart choice at toney deli’s across the nation.
The most American holiday [...]
Steyn, MVDG On Us, Them
Published on 18 Nov 2007 at 10:38 am.
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Filed under America, Europe.
UPDATE: Speaking of Europe, latest contribution to western civilization … eco-porn.
MVDG, off whacking cowboy diplomacy for the moment, points his six-shooter at Euro-Irrationality. Steyn, a laugh-riot, as usual. And dead-on, re American traditionalism and Euro-fadism:
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Sisu
Published on 16 Nov 2007 at 12:20 am.
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Filed under America, Europe.
Ha. Sid Blumenthal’s “Unprecendented Decline of U.S. Prestige” is so yesterday.
“Americans Are Bonkers”
Published on 10 Nov 2007 at 10:42 am.
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Filed under America, Europe, UFOs.
This from a guy who lives below sea level, whose nation’s, excuse me, continent’s response to Islamo-terrorism is increasingly appeasement, and who gets his Euro-shorts in a twist every time I lump all Euros in one basket. Hey Clogboy! Find a hill!
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Taking the Re- Out of Repatriation
Published on 26 Oct 2007 at 9:05 am.
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Filed under America, anthronerdism.
John Hawks on the return of 10,000-year-old human remains to a tribe of current occupants of Beringia:
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Happy Columbus Day
Published on 8 Oct 2007 at 9:35 am.
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Filed under America.
James Carroll at Boston Globe, All glasses half empty, all silver linings cloudy. Put another way:
Flagging Enthusiasm
Published on 5 Oct 2007 at 8:32 am.
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Filed under America, pols.
I don’t walk around wearing an American flag pin. I don’t particularly care if pols or TV anchors do. But making a political point about one’s patriotism with its removal seems a little … I dunno … unpatriotic. Dawn’s early light shines on Obama, after mikejockey notices our flag is not there:
Claim/Fact
Published on 19 Sep 2007 at 9:48 am.
31 Comments.
Filed under America, history.
The Washington Post crunches numbers, quibbles, misses the broad side of history’s barn in its the claim/the facts examination of this remark by Fred Thompson:
“You know, you look back over our history, and it doesn’t take you long to realize that our people have shed more blood for other people’s liberty than any other combination of nations [...]
New Americans
Published on 18 Sep 2007 at 8:36 am.
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Filed under America.
Surber salutes some who serve first, swear later.
Vote For Mo
Published on 2 Sep 2007 at 10:21 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under America, Islam, pols.
Dean, Ellison tell Muslims to run for office:
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean told American Muslims gathered in Rosemont to think beyond voter registration drives.
“You need to run for political office,” Dean said Saturday. “The only way you can achieve your goals is to stand up and say who you are and be proud of it.”
Those [...]
Up Creek With Padilla
Published on 17 Aug 2007 at 12:37 am.
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Filed under America, GWOT, blogs.
A terrorism conviction by a jury of his peers should shut up the Padillista cheering section. Don’t you think?
Fall Of Rome
Published on 16 Aug 2007 at 10:11 am.
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Filed under America, history.
And what it has to do with us. The Oxford Medievalist reaches deep.
Why We All Can’t Just Get Along
Published on 16 Aug 2007 at 10:11 am.
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Filed under America, racism.
WSJ’s Henninger offers up his thoughts on the Death of Diversity:
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America Is A Great Country
Published on 12 Aug 2007 at 9:18 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under America, baseball.
Back home from that farm-team doubleheader at Fenway yesterday. Single A Red Sox Lowell Spinners vs. Tampa Bay’s Hudson Valley Renegades and Double A Red Sox Portland SeaDogs vs. Washington Nationals’ Harrisburg Senators. Two hometown 9th inning back-from-behind walkoffs.
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Al-Goose Creek, South Caroliniyah
Published on 6 Aug 2007 at 9:51 am.
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Filed under America, GWOT.
Riehl rounds it all up, with mugshots: “They ain’t Irish Catholics.”
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Bikini Girls with Machine Guns
Published on 5 Aug 2007 at 9:55 am.
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Filed under America, guns, sex.
It is your patriotic duty to watch this. Vid compliments of Theo Spark. And yes, he’s got your Sunday morning totty, you perv.
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Howbout That
Published on 5 Aug 2007 at 9:01 am.
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Filed under America, GWOT, middle east.
Gentlemen of “Middle Eastern descent” out on a Saturday night with a carload of “explosive devices” when pulled over in Goose Creek, S.C., home to the Naval Weapons Station and U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig, home to enemy combatants:
Line of Duty Murder
Published on 5 Aug 2007 at 8:32 am.
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Filed under America, Islam.
Homegrown Muslims eyed in Oakland Post editor’s murder. Black Muslim bakery’s handyman confesses:
Hasta La Vista!
Published on 2 Aug 2007 at 12:46 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under America, Canada, GWOT.
Don’t let the customs post barrier bonk your head on the way out! More Americans heading north:
Get Naked for America
Published on 25 Jul 2007 at 11:07 pm.
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Filed under America, Britain, GWOT, boobs.
It’s a plan. Here’s how it works.* You must do this.** It’s for America.
Other Ways to Celebrate the Fourth
Published on 5 Jul 2007 at 8:36 am.
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Filed under America, Iraq, military.
In Baghdad, 325 U.S. soldiers became Americans.
Near the front of the hall, Pfc. Mark Ayson, with a black brace on one wrist and an M-4 rifle slung across his back, had tears in his eyes.
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Short on the Concept
Published on 4 Jul 2007 at 9:13 am.
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Olbermann: Bush, Cheney should resign. Warmed over Bush-lied-people-died argument delivered in stentorian Declaration of Independential tones sees Scooter commutation as the last straw in King George’s long list of crimes.
Get a grip.
Crittenden to MSNBC, on this day, the Fourth Day of July, 2007:
Gettysburg Address
Published on 4 Jul 2007 at 8:23 am.
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
Declaration of Independence
Published on 4 Jul 2007 at 8:21 am.
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IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws [...]
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Hail to the Sheets!
Published on 22 Jun 2007 at 11:49 pm.
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Filed under America, Britain, history, pols.
At Iain Dale’s:
Two young American females overheard on the tube…
Girl 1: Every girl would sleep with the President of the United States, wouldn’t she?
Uh, Thanks …
Published on 23 Nov 2006 at 2:01 am.
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In Plymouth, Massachusetts, about 10 miles down the road from my house, the members of the Mayflower Society will march this Thanksgiving morning in period garb, in solemn procession, to the town cemetery. There, they will pay their respects to their ancestors, and go to dinner.
A few hours later, many also in period garb, American [...]
