davidl on April 20th, 2007

There has been much talk on the board about the wussificiation of America, here and here.   Yet there is good news and bad news.   First the good, we still have people with foritude and balls.   Sadly they are not

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davidl on April 20th, 2007

An ass serves one useful function.

The liberals rail about the coarsing on the culture,   Yet their cultural icons are jerks.   Baldwin has a daughter and he can’t even remember how old she is.   Little wonder she doesn’t feel close

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davidl on April 20th, 2007

Don Imus gets fired for calling the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy headed hos”, everyone gets ‘outraged’ by it and demands apologies and heads on platters, while rapper “Akon” simulates bruising, brutal sex on stage with an underage girl, tosses

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Eric Florack on April 19th, 2007

First, a belated nod to Rodney Dill, who awarded your Bitmaster an Honorable Mention in the latest OTB Caption Contest.

*The Music: Tonight, I’m doing the internet radio thing… at SmoothJazz.com

Print media is not the only medium loving to

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Eric Florack on April 19th, 2007

Odd timing.

 LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) _ Brant Parker, who for decades illustrated “The Wizard of Id” comic strip, has died just days after the passing of his collaborator. He was 86.

Parker died Sunday at a nursing facility in Lynchburg

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davidl on April 19th, 2007

World Trade Center

“The worst mass murder in U.S. history”

(H/T:  Don Surber, Michelle Malkin, Jawa Report )

(Shame:  Google )

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Eric Florack on April 19th, 2007

Ace makes an interesting point today, almost offhandedly while discussing a different angle… which is often… indeed, in my experience, usually, how such points are made. Even he admidts this is off the cuff on his part.  He speaks of

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davidl on April 19th, 2007

Yesterday, April 18, 2007, was an ironic day.   At 30 Rockefeller Plaza, what can  be described as a mult-media version of the Unabomber Manifesto was delivered to NBC News, from the Blacksburg killer, Cho Seung-Hui a.k.a. Ismael Ax.

Rachel ScottMeanwhile

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davidl on April 19th, 2007

Victims Blackburg

These people had names, faces and stories.   They need to be heard.   It is not the time for moving on.  It is the time to grieve.

(H/T and BSWK photo: Pamela Geller Oshry, Atlas Shrug.)

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Eric Florack on April 19th, 2007

About two years ago, I posted a list of causes of high gasoline prices.  The situation, has not changed, except for the worse.  The causes are the same as they were then.  So, let’s revisit what I said two years

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davidl on April 18th, 2007

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve

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Eric Florack on April 18th, 2007

NEW YORK â€”AP-  Kitty Carlisle Hart, whose long career spanned Broadway, opera, television and film, including the classic Marx Brothers movie “A Night at the Opera,” has died at age 96, her son said Wednesday.

Christopher Hart said his mother

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davidl on April 18th, 2007

Barack ObamaAll it took to kill Geoge Allen was one slip of the tongue.   Well, if the attributed quote is accurate, Barack Obama has just had his Macaca moment.  According to Texas Rainmaker, Obama said:

“the violence of men and

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davidl on April 18th, 2007

Cho Seung-HuiSister Toldjah is on the emerging story that Cho Seung-Hui used the nom de plume of “Ismail Ax”   The possible Islamic connections should not be over looked.

I find it interestng, revealing and disturbing that idiots like Keith

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davidl on April 18th, 2007

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Too often, bloggers act as if they invented the world the day they came on the scene.

Don Surber

I hasten add that the phenomenom is not necessarily restricted to bloggers.

 

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