Friday, December 24, 2010

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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Nativity scene with shepherds, by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, a famous Spanish baroque painter (1618-1682). Downeastblog wishes all its ...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: MOONLIGHT SONATA.

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Delicate beauty. One of several piano sonatas, the Mondscheinsonate , dedicated to one of Beethoven's numerous botched romances, Countes...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

ON THAT GLOBAL WARMING THINGY...

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A couple of years back, we had us this nice and sophisticated leftist commenter here, who posted under the creative moniker of "anon...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

DADT REPEALED: A BLACK DAY FOR THE US MILITARY.

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As all of you probably know by now, the outgoing Congress, more precisely the Senate, voted for repealing DADT There are several good takes ...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

SATURDAY NIGHT STARSAILOR, THE KINKS.

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Starsailor with Four to the Floor . A UK alternative rock band from Wigan, they released this hit in 2004, the third one from the album Sile...
Sunday, December 12, 2010

HIS MASTER'S VOICE: THOMAS SOWELL ON PUBLIC SERVICE.

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Thomas Sowell blasts the fallacy of public service's soi-disant "noble character": Upon hearing Dr. Sowell, I was reminded of ...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

SATURDAY NIGHT SUPERTRAMP, ANDREAS JOHNSON.

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For today it's Supertramp with Crime of the Century, a brilliant song with an interesting dynamic. It's 1974. The video was made by ...
Friday, December 10, 2010

GRUESOME RACIST MURDERS AGAINST WHITES IN SOUTH AFRICA CONTINUE. WORLD LOOKS THE OTHER WAY.

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Chilling news over at Sarah's Albion Blog , who has a story about yet another racist murder case against Afrikaners (White South African...
Thursday, December 09, 2010

SERGEI PROKOFIEV'S MONTAGUES AND CAPULETS.

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Probably the best known score of Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet is the one known as Montagues and Capulets . It is the fifth score ...
Wednesday, December 08, 2010

ISLAMIZATION IN FRANCE SPEEDING FORWARD.

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Last Monday, December 6, the City Council of Strasbourg , France, allowed the building promotors of the Strasbourg mosque to add a 30-meter ...
Tuesday, December 07, 2010

FILIP DEWINTER (VLAAMS BELANG) RECEIVED IN THE KNESSET, MEETS LIKUD MINISTER.

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Currently, in Israel a summit is taking place on islamic terrorism and the strategy, or srategies, to combat it. A delegation of the EFA (Eu...
Monday, December 06, 2010

NOBEL LAUREATE V.S. NAIPAUL FORCED OUT OF LITERARY EVENT IN TURKEY BY RADICAL MUSLIMS.

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Yes, it has come this far. Via The Telegraph , November 25: (By Adrian Blomfield, Middle East Correspondent 5:36PM GMT 25 Nov 2010) ".....
Sunday, December 05, 2010

INSANITY IN SWEDEN: SWEDISH PARTIES CHANGE CONSTITUTION SO THAT NON-SWEDISH NATIONAL PROSECUTOR CAN CONDEMN SWEDISH CITIZENS THEMSELVES.

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A couple of years ago, not yet fully aware how insanely politically correct practically all Swedish parties are and how far advanced the evo...
Saturday, December 04, 2010

SATURDAY NIGHT CROSBY, STILLS, NASH AND YOUNG, BLINK.

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Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young . And of course, it's... ... Our house. 1970. Blink with Happy Day . Guys are from Ireland. It's 199...
Friday, December 03, 2010

AUSTRIAN MP EWALD STADLER BLASTS TURKISH AMBASSADOR KADRI ECVET TEZCAN.

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With so much going on in the world today, it was easy to miss the rant delivered by Turkey's ambassador to Austria a couple of weeks ago...
Thursday, December 02, 2010

RICHARD WAGNER: PRELUDE TO ACT 1 OF PARSIFAL.

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Richard Wagner worked intermittently on his famous opera Parsifal , from its first conception in 1857 to its final draft in 1877. The opera ...
Wednesday, December 01, 2010

BELGIAN 'TOP' NEWSPAPER 'DE STANDAARD' SHILLS FOR BRADLEY MANNING.

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It is crystal clear that the 'prime' Belgian newspaper, De Standaard The Belgian journal De Standaard seems rather sympathetic towa...
Sunday, November 28, 2010

RARE VIDEO FOOTAGE FROM INSIDE NORTH KOREA.

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Via The Telegraph , in my opinion the best UK journal: I am currently reading David Halberstam 's The Coldest Winter , on the origins of...
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 ...