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Saturday, January 23, 2010

SATURDAY NIGHT SNOW PATROL, THE CALL, SUZANNE VEGA (UPDATE).

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Looks like these guys have found the way to fame. I had a post about them a couple of weeks back with their 2007 hit Shut your eyes . This ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

WEDNESDAY NIGHT OPEN THREAD... (UPDATE)

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Things are looking okay, since some people just make a career of being clueless. UPDATE: ADOLF LEARNS BROWN BEAT CROAKLEY. MFBB.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

TAX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE.

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Regular reader Joanne linked to this story from Herb Denenberg over at The Bulletin : Obama, The Emperor, Has No Clothes We’ve Reached The...
Monday, January 18, 2010

CREEPING ISLAMIZATION IN BELGIUM.

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It's happening in a less obvious way than in our neigboring countries, but it's happening, alright. Via François Desouche , a photo ...
Sunday, January 17, 2010

HAITI AGAIN - APPEAL FOR HELP.

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I actually intended to do a small post on another subject but the urgency of the situation in Haiti trumped that. As it is now crystal-clear...
Saturday, January 16, 2010

SATURDAY NIGHT DAVE DAVIES, AMY MCDONALD.

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If you thought Geert Wilders' haircut was weird, how about this one? The Kinks' Dave Davies with Death of a Clown from 1967. Immor...
Friday, January 15, 2010

SNAPSHOTS FROM FRANCE, AD 2010...

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Marseille , December 24, 2009: Even Le Monde is noting the extremely ominous fact of the government policy of downplaying the torching of 40...
Thursday, January 14, 2010

HAITI: APPEAL FOR HELP.

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After having become aware of the scale of the terrible disaster in Haiti, a post like this one seems appropriate. Close to 100,000 dead, and...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

DREAMING OF SNOWDONIA...

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After all the clatter and the buzz and the frantic activities of another working day, I find myself dreaming of walking... ... here. Snowdon...
Saturday, January 09, 2010

SATURDAY NIGHT MANIC STREET PREACHERS, LIVING COLOUR, ROBERT PALMER, FUN LOVIN CRIMINALS.

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Probably the best Welsh band ever, Manic Street Preachers seemed to emerge out of nowhere in 1992 with the smash hit Motorcycle Emptiness ....
Thursday, January 07, 2010

GLOBAL WARMING HITTING EUROPE HARD.

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NASA's Terra satellite captured the UK on January 7, as it was coping with a shitload of Global Warming: The clouds you see have a silv...
Tuesday, January 05, 2010

POSITIVE NEWS FROM FRANCE: THIS TIME, ONLY 1,137 CARS TORCHED ON NEW YEAR'S EVE.

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Positive trend in France: the number of cars torched on New Year's Eve is only 1,137 this time round. Or, ten down from last year. Thos...
Monday, January 04, 2010

ISLAMIC EXTREMIST ATTEMPTS TO HACK KURT WESTERGAARD TO PIECES WITH AXE: MODERATE MUSLIMS SPEAK OUT.

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The year 2010 did not really start well for Kurt Westergaard , the Danish cartoonist who became famous for his cartoon of a bomb-turbaned Mu...
Friday, January 01, 2010

SATURDAY NIGHT WANG CHUNG, MASSIVE ATTACK.

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To live and die in LA , eighties hit by the now obscure seeming band Wang Chung . It's from the soundtrack of the movie with the same st...

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!!!

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DowneastBlog wishes all its readers of good will, wherever they may be, a Happy and Prosperous 2010!!! MFBB.
Monday, December 28, 2009

AVATAR IS STINKING CRAP.

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No, I haven't seen the movie. There is no need to for me, not after reading this Fjordman review in The Brussels Journal : The hero is t...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

SATURDAY NIGHT SNOW PATROL, THE ROLLING STONES.

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First a 2006 number from Northern Irish/Scottish band Snow Patrol , a group formed in 1994 by Gary Lightbody , Michael Morrison and Mark McC...
Thursday, December 24, 2009

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL!

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Adoration of the Shepherds (1622), by Gerrit Van Honthorst , a Dutch Golden Age painter from the city of Utrecht. From Luke 2, 1-20 : "...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

ON KANDAHAR AIRFIELD.

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The six F-16 Belgian fighter-bombers operating from Kandahar Airfield currently operate low key. It seems that two flights a day suffice giv...
Monday, December 21, 2009

ROGER SCRUTON: TOTALITARIAN SENTIMENTALITY.

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Roger Vernon Scruton (born 1944) is a British philosopher, author and composer. Rather a traditionalist Burkean conservative, his emphasis ...
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