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This looks like a good read. The son of one of the founders of Hamas has written a book detailing his cooperation with Israeli intelligence forces. From the AP: Speaking with Haaretz, Yousef said Shin Bet agents first approached him in prison in 1996 and proposed he infiltrate the upper echelons of Hamas. He did so successfully and [...] I thought some of you might be interested in this story in The New York Times Magazine about Charles Johnson and his Little Green Footballs blog. When I first got on the internet, I’d heard of three blogs: the Drudge Report, Powerline, and Little Green Footballs. I don’t visit any of them now, but they were [...] Obama — getting bashed from the left. A masterful job of editing… and very telling. h/t: The Corner Share on Facebook Rich, I think it’s more than a radical element within the faith. This ebbs and flows throughout history in direct proportion to how much power Islam has within a country, or the world. Mohammed (and his twin, Muhammed) was a religious leader AND a political leader. He led the citizens of Mecca for decades, and he [...] In yesterday’s open thread, the subject of Nancy Pelosi’s recent Newsweek interview arose. First, let’s get this out of the way: the interviewer is—oy!—Eleanor Clift. So if you click through and read it, you’ll see questions like this: I think a lot of people thought that once President Obama was elected, we wouldn’t see the traditional bargaining [...] I spent the Christmas weekend up at my sister’s house in Monroe, Connecticut. It’s a lovely town a little north of Bridgeport, and the first taste of real New England you get when you’re driving north from New York City. There are beautiful hills and woods, churches and gazebos, lovely leaves in the fall and there [...] “any resemblance to cardboard is purely coincidental” For those of you who many not read every post and every comment (I know, I skip over most of Floyd and JohnFN’s stuff too) you may have missed a comment from trzupr to one of his seventeen siblings regarding something called, “oplatek.” Being a Polish word there is [...]
Rich has done some excellent reporting on “Climategate.” From what I’ve heard, Russia has been pin-pointed as the source of the hack that made the CRU e-mails public. Not a surprise. Russia is chock-full of expert computer hackers. However, I haven’t heard any speculation in the media about this aspect of the story. Rich, what do [...] The Weekly Standard has an interesting piece on Belgium’s troubles in keeping itself together. The second thing he insists on is that Americans may have an especially hard time seeing what is wrong with Belgian federalism as it now exists. With its already enormous devolutions of political authority to Flanders and Wallonia, Belgium now [...] Oh, goodie, another Rush live album. Not just any ol’ studio album-tour-live album-live DVD, rinse-cycle-repeat variety live album, either. No, no. Why buck band tradition with something like that during the holiday season when a non-concert compilation of many shows through the years will be more than enough, thank ya kindly. Please, Geddy, Alex and Neil, [...] Share on Facebook Kenn writes: My theory – listen up all you naturalists/nature freaks, out there – is that capitalism is natural – socialism/communism are mechanisms devised by man to subvert the natural process. Capitalism, is almost a perfect reflection of the natural word – those that hunt and gather have a greater chance of survival than those [...] JohnFN, In response to your VDH post on the culture: Just followed the link and read the piece. I see two things; one, as VDH touched on, is VDH is aging. The simplest analogy is “Oldies Stations.” There is a reason every town has a big enough audience to fund one radio station airing the hits [...] I realize that this subject line guarantees every one will click through as fast as humanly possible, but at least I can say that I warned the rest of you. My conscience is clear. Well, about this anyway. Almost. Share on Facebook Why do I think this seems the way -Mike! signs on to post here? NSFW… Share on Facebook I think you do not appropriately understand this anniversary: Proper respect young whippersnapper! Share on Facebook This has been around for a while, but I like the way it captures the spirit of Threedonia… Share on Facebook
Wait, wait, how about if I give you free health care and $4,500 for your clunker chariots… I have been very busy at my day job (which lately has also been my night and weekend job) and didn’t have sufficient time to comment on this post by the inimitable, Kyle Smith. First, let me say [...] Just a quick note to Wade Boggs, who recently complained that his number has not been retired by the Boston Red Sox: You wanted to become a Yankee, let them retire your number. The linked Boston Globe article claims that,”the Red Sox have had a policy of not retiring numbers unless the player finished his career as a [...] An interesting piece at Politico gives us a little behind-the-scenes look at the last days of the McCain campaign. Remember the repeated leaks from “top campaign staffers” which sought to discredit Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin? William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, implies that they came from Steve Schmidt, McCain’s campaign manager. Kristol cited a passage [...] From the San Francisco Chronicle: A homeless man is on trial in San Mateo County on charges that he smacked a fellow transient in the face with a skateboard as the victim was engaged in a conversation about quantum physics, authorities said Wednesday. Jason Everett Keller, 40, allegedly accosted another homeless man, Stephan Fava, on the 200 [...] RF3D — now featuring the meaty goodness of Mike Kriskey, the newest member of Threedonia’s blogging family — welcomes author and filmmaker Michael Mandaville to the contained lunacy. “Motivation” might as well be his middle name, too, as he gives the gang of two (and you, our loyal listeners) a primer on his latest book, [...] I’m a big fan of Eric and sincerely admire all that he’s been able to accomplish with his talents, for want of a better word. I look forward to reading his music reviews, if for no other reason than that I enjoy the occasional blood pressure spike as much as the next guy. Because he doesn’t [...] Rockrimmon CC security cameras catch Mike as he sits in his hovel trying to mate his claymates “Harvey” and “Phil”. I have begun to worry about Mike as he seems to have become obsessed with A/V Club, the Little Rascals, and various other things. Luckily, he has left his caddy hovel at the [...] We’ll do this Mike-style! No pictures, no explanations, no debate, no nothin’. Top 5 Favorite Lunar Expeditions. So. Which of my ideas is most brilliant? (I guess you could add your own, if you feel you must.) Share [...] This is Mike’s favorite “Man Movie”: How do I know? I’ve got proof: Share on Facebook In yesterday’s Top 5 baseball movies thread, Rufus made the following statement: “Field of Dreams?!” Freakin’ “Field of Dreams?????” JohnFN became just a little more fallible in my eyes today, but he did pick “The Rookie,” so I’ll cut him a little slack. And for evidence of how correct I am that neither “Field of Dreams,” [...] Share on Facebook Maureen Dowd, queen of the cool kids, has been reduced to trolling leftist blogs for material. Her writing displays all the maturity of a self-absorbed teenager anyway, but passing off content copied from the web as her own surely confirms the impression. Dowd’s Sunday opinion column in The New York Times featured this line: More and more the timeline [...] There are subtle undercurrents at NRO’s The Corner, but the regular reader can discern them if he’s observant. K-Lo and Jonah argue amiably, like siblings. Ramesh Ponnuru and John Derbyshire regard each other with thinly-veiled disdain. Mark Krikorian is largely ignored by everyone. I don’t know Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute, but I do know I wouldn’t [...] I suspect this will yank a lot of our readers off, but there is another side to the driving while intoxicated issue. Floyd argued the legal blood alcohol content for motorists should be standardized to 0.08 in this post. Perhaps. But there are other principles at stake here and we don’t often talk about them. [...] Victor Davis Hanson has been tracking Barack Obama’s Worldwide Apology Tour 2009 and is less than impressed with his intellectual honesty. In this great age of atonement, in a mere two or three days the world has been reminded that (1) the U.S. has been arrogant; (2) dismissive and derisive to Europe; (3) was a [...] A golden oldie. That’s our own Floyd in the Yankees pull-over, playing with his “light saber”. Scout’s honor! Comes in at about 2:23.
Share on Facebook …not to get into a Warner Bros VS. MGM spat, but I thought I’d share another classic Looney Tunes film…The Three Little Bops. I thing that a lot of people forget about these productions is the amount of work that went into the music that was used…pretty cool stuff. Share on Facebook OPEN THREAD FOR SCOTT M. Here, Scott, so you don’t have constantly thread-jack. That’s right, I’m feelin’ ornery. A head-cold (or allergies) that refuses to fully go away will do that to ya. I’ll even get ya started: Not to get off topic, but… Share on Facebook I think we are in agreement here (about Geithner, although I too thought the cartoon was awful and it took way too long to get to the song). My guess is that Obama knew of Geithner from their parents’ working relationship, and that’s fine. I also think there is a chance that familial relationship made [...] Continuing in my crabby old man vein, man that took a long time to get to the music. Talk about tedious. That cartoon was awful. We’ve been waiting all year, since (sadly) this holiday only comes around once per year. It is a very, very special holiday for one particular citizen of Threedonia. It’s probably the most important day of the year for him, in fact. (Hmmmm, just ruled out Wankette there, didn’t I?) Break out the bubbly and toast the [...] Apparently so. Mark McGwire’s Quisling, stoolie, younger brother Jay is shopping a book proposal in which he claims to have injected Mark McGwire with steroids starting in 1994. Ouch! Little brothers never stop tattling do they. Jay better be careful… getting swirlied by a ‘roided out older brother might end up [...] Since I’m about to infuriate Eric and most (if not all) my fellow Threedonians, let me first say that Joe Paterno has been one of my favorite coaches for a long time. I am a big fan of the concept of student athletes and I most admire College programs that emphasize the former over the [...] |
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