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As per usual, I was looking for a studio version but could only find this 1971 Live performance of 'Old Man' by Neil Young. Still, I...

Denmark is basically Jutland , a tongue of land the size of New Jersey "jutting out" from northern Germany, the two big islands Fy...

For once, we changed direction for our yearly holiday, from northwest to due north - so instead of Scotland it was Norway this year. Always ...

From USAToday , August 10 . Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker, D-CA: "However, it is now evident that an ugly campaign is underway not merely...

Heart with Magic Man , IIRC from the 1976 album Dreamboat Annie . Someone should glue the first half of the studio recording to the second ...

There are those who call me a bigot because of the relation I perceive between criminality committed by immigrants and their religion, in ca...

A.) THE NETHERLANDS. Dutch daily De Telegraaf , July 19, 2009: "Sexual harassment in swimming pool. RIDDERKERK - Last week police has a...

Steve Miller Band. Serenade. REM. All the way to Reno. Sorry. Very short on time. MFBB.

In July, two more Belgian F-16 fighter bombers joined the four already present on Kandahar Airfield. This means that there are currently six...

OK, Sunday night. Fell asleep on the sofa yesterday night before I could make it to the puter. I actually wanted to post "Step On"...

Our favorite rightwing extremist in the USN, CDRSalamander , linked to a magnificent Thomas Sowell column . Very appropriate nowadays: ...

Belgian band Soulwax , in a later life known as the Flying Dewaele Brothers . Much against everyone's advice , from the 1998 album of th...

In France since at least 2004, muslim youths living predominantly in the now 800 or so ZUS [Zones Urbaines Sensibles, or sensitive urban zo...

Over at Townhall, Salena Zito sheds some light on the Obama Administrations 'czaring' phenomenon: "... Czars have been used si...

Since Flanders is not an independent state, this day, the most famous of our history, is no celebration of our independence in the manner th...

The islamization of Europe is entering a new and even more frightening dynamic, and in all western countries (the Iron Curtain had one advan...

I wish all Americans of good will a superb 4th of July! ... and save a prayer for the soldier missing since June 30th in Paktika Province, A...

Via Grouchy Old Cripple : What If George W. Bush Had ... 1.) made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved? 2....

From The Daily Mail , 29th June, 2009 : Britain has 85 sharia courts: The astonishing spread of the Islamic justice behind closed doors. ......

The Stranglers were instrumental in bringing punk rock to the UK, although you wouldn't say so for a lot of their songs. They originate...