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Saturday, November 27, 2010

SATURDAY NIGHT TOM PETTY, BROKEN BELLS, THE DOOBIE BROTHERS.

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Tom Petty, without the Heartbreakers, in 1994 with You wreck me , from the album Wildflowers . Because a.) I am SUCH a nice, deeply caring p...
Friday, November 26, 2010

A BELATED HAPPY THANKSGIVING.

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It is now official, Outlaw Mike just participated in his very first Thanksgiving Dinner. Blurred but atmospheric snapshot of people helping ...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

THE PRACTICE OF STONING IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN.

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Via Dutch website GeenStijl , infosheets from an Amnesty International Report (from time to time, AI does something good still) on stoning i...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

SINT-NIKLAAS, BELGIUM. SYRIAN REFUSES TO LISTEN TO FEMALE COP, BLOCKS ENTIRE TOWN CENTER AS A RESULT.

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From the You GOT To Be Kidding Me Department: Syrian refuses to obey female police officer. "Syrian ignores female agent's orders S...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

SATURDAY NIGHT MULU, PORNO FOR PYROS, SIMPLE MINDS.

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Mulu with Pussycat . From the album Smiles like a shark , 1997. Singer's Laura Campbell . Porno for Pyros . 100 Ways . I know, Perry Fa...
Friday, November 19, 2010

THE SAD FATE OF CHRISTIANS IN EGYPT (UPDATE).

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Regular reader and commenter Joanne linked to this appalling story of the burning alive of a Coptic man at the hands of muslim thugs in Egy...
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

DENNIS PRAGER: THE MIDDLE EAST PROBLEM IN SIX MINUTES.

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Via Theo Spark . Dennis Prager explains a sixty-year old problem in a nutshell. In this, like in every other Middle Eastern conflict, the re...
Monday, November 15, 2010

GOUDA, NETHERLANDS. EVEN A SOCIALIST MAYOR WANTS TO DEPORT PROBLEMATIC MOROCCAN FAMILIES FROM HIS CITY.

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Largely unknown outside The Netherlands is the city of Gouda , home of famous cheeses. The outside world - at least in the blogosphere - has...
Saturday, November 13, 2010

SATURDAY NIGHT NADA SURF, FAITH NO MORE.

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Nada Surf . Popular . The only hit drawn from their debut album High/Low . It's 1996. Bwahahahaaaaaaa!!!! Hilarious lyrics!!!! Nada Sur...
Friday, November 12, 2010

ANTWERP: MUSLIM-ORGANIZED MULTICULTURAL "CONFERENCE" TURNS INTO - WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT - WHINEFEST AGAINST ISRAEL.

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Belgian top political blogger Luc Van Braekel had an excellent post up last week about a "multicultural conference" organised by m...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

ARMISTICE DAY. REMEMBERING THE FALLEN.

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Armistice Day , November 11, is of course, as you should teach your children, meant to commemmorate the end of hostilities in the First Worl...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

PAT CONDELL BLASTS ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA.

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These days, no man, not even Mark Steyn, is more qualified than Pat Condell to deliver a damning indictment of the travesty that's going...
Tuesday, November 09, 2010

BRITISH ISLAMIC TV CHANNEL OPENLY ADVOCATES BEATING WIVES, GETS 'SLAPPED' ON WRIST.

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From The Daily Mail Online, 9 November 2010: "...A Muslim religious channel that allowed presenters to condone marital rape and call wo...
Saturday, November 06, 2010

SATURDAY NIGHT BILLY JOEL, LIVE, U2.

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A lesser known and not very commercial number on Billy Joel 's The Nylon Curtain album from 1982. Scandinavian Skies . Kind of a concep...
Wednesday, November 03, 2010

MIDTERM ELECTIONS...

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Thank you Traveller for da pic. MFBB.
Tuesday, November 02, 2010

DOWNEASTBLOG SUPPORTS ELISABETH SABADITSCH-WOLFF.

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I realize this may not be the best moment to come up with this post, as attention worldwide is turned to the US midterm elections. I also re...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

A DAY OUT IN THE ARDENNES (AGAIN).

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The Belgian weather forecast sucked big time again today. Yesterday they predicted rain over the country all day. The following pics show ho...
Saturday, October 30, 2010

SATURDAY NIGHT FISCHER Z, BOB SEGER.

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New wave band Fischer Z with So Long . From the album Going Deaf for a living (1980). Fischer Z is a forgotten band now, and back in the da...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

LA PRIMAVERA (ANTONIO VIVALDI).

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Never again say I'm a pessimist. It's the onset of winter, and this is La Primavera (Spring), the first of four violin concertos co...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

OUTRAGE AT SPEAKER'S CORNER.

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From the 'This makes my blood boil' category. Last Sunday, October 24 2010, Gates of Vienna had the scoop of an appalling story: BRE...
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