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Floyd | Sunday, 14th of March 2010 at 03:21:47 PM
I’m somewhat relieved that California is not the only screwed up place…. Come on Memphis — straighten up!
Stolen from the AP (who can go “F” themselves):
Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system [...]
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JohnFN | Sunday, 14th of March 2010 at 12:50:51 PM
The Grim Reaper's favorite ride, before the Prius.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Audi was gripped with a crisis. It’s car, the Audi-5000, was linked with SAIs – Sudden Acceleration Incidents. The vehicle would allegedly speed off while the helpless driver gripped the wheel in sheer terror while unavailingly mashing one’s foot through [...]
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Floyd | Saturday, 13th of March 2010 at 08:38:32 AM
John Adams, American Founder and talented lawyer, represented the British soldiers prosecuted for the “Boston Massacre”. There has been a move — successfully — to get the Obama DOJ to release the names of seven political appointees in the Attorney General’s office who voluntarily represented Gitmo detainees — aka captured member of al-Qaeda. [...]
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Eric | Saturday, 13th of March 2010 at 07:08:45 AM
Potential Tea Party anthem? Perhaps. I also prefer to look at this song as a thumb in the eye of any politician who wishes to be our overlord instead of serving WE THE PEOPLE.
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Floyd | Friday, 12th of March 2010 at 04:17:21 PM
So we’re talking about sentencing and punishment today in my Courts/Criminal Procedure class and one of students makes a comment that we should have a return of gladiator battles for punishment. “For whom?” I ask. “Child molesters” he says. So then I ask if he expected them to have slap fights in [...]
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Rufus | Thursday, 11th of March 2010 at 03:43:58 PM
Embedding is disabled on youtube, but check this out, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJQcol7HevI
That was a popular music video in the ’80s and I guarantee you none of us here who are old enough to remember it batted an eyelash when we saw it. The culture had very successfully convinced most everyone under the age of ‘40 that Reagan [...]
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trzupr | Thursday, 11th of March 2010 at 09:10:14 AM
Had Paddy been hitting the sauce before he flipped out? Wouldn’t be surprised…
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Floyd | Thursday, 11th of March 2010 at 08:12:24 AM
From Fox New York:
Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.
“No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of [...]
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JohnFN | Wednesday, 10th of March 2010 at 10:56:15 PM
Fitting, the day the United States sets a record for debt in a month ($220 billion, up 14-percent from last year’s already staggering number) we get news from Greece. The Greek government is run by the Socialist party. The Socialist party spent money until it no longer could, resulting in the collapse of its economy [...]
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Wankette | Wednesday, 10th of March 2010 at 12:41:29 PM
Today Monica Conyers was sentenced to 37 months in jail for her role in a bribery scandal.
The 37 months is the top of the sentencing guidelines recommended by the probation department. She has 10 days to appeal; otherwise she’ll start serving July 1.
Of course, nothing Conyers transpires without controversy:
Before the sentencing was announced, a strange series [...]
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trzupr | Wednesday, 10th of March 2010 at 09:02:10 AM
Glenn Beck has never been to my taste, but I’m glad he’s out there. (Pun intended). Beck serves a role. When it comes to challenging the socialist in chief and his economic plans, we need guys like Beck who can drive home the message in an entertaining way that Joe Everyman will digest.
What Beck is [...]
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Floyd | Wednesday, 10th of March 2010 at 07:31:49 AM
Nancy Pelosi, Rufus’ Speaker of the House, gave a speech to the Legislative Conference of the National Association of Counties yesterday. Her full remarks are here (if you dare):
Here’s a snippet of what she said:
You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t [...]
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Outlaw13 | Tuesday, 9th of March 2010 at 06:23:52 PM
It’s better to keep your mouth shut and be thought an idiot than open it and remove all doubt.
In today’s example that proves the above statement we have one Tom Hanks courtesy of Time Magazine via John Nolte AKA Dirty Harry
Tom talking about his new show on HBO:
“From the outset, we wanted to make people [...]
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Floyd | Tuesday, 9th of March 2010 at 02:00:18 PM
Ban fishing? Obama is the one who is a barbarian… Here are some cultural offering for him:
I’d include Moby Dick, but of course that was whaling.
The person who does not appreciate hunting and fishing does not fully appreciate God’s creation.
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JohnFN | Tuesday, 9th of March 2010 at 12:06:54 PM
In an effort to further alienate every human being west of the Hudson, the Obama administration has cut off public input from a new federal strategy concerning recreational fishing. From that deranged right-wing outlet known as ESPN:
The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens [...]
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Floyd | Tuesday, 9th of March 2010 at 07:37:35 AM
As a post mortem on the Eric Massa brouhaha… I like the way Althouse summed it up:
Massa says he was persecuted, and all he did was make a stupid drunken sexual remark at a New Year’s Eve party. If it wasn’t so bad, don’t resign. Man up, or shut up, Massa.
If avoiding gov’t [...]
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Floyd | Monday, 8th of March 2010 at 07:24:13 AM
Last week I posted on Democratic Congressman Eric Massa in Dutch for “sexually harassing” a “junior” male staffer. Well, as with most things related to the House of Representatives in the Age of Obama it seems there’s more — a LOT more to the story. Outlaw had linked to a bit from [...]
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Eric | Monday, 8th of March 2010 at 04:30:02 AM
Your potential theme song?
Channeling the great Bobby Subgum, a teasah, a rittle ti’bit of the great Gary Eaton somehow making me sound not-too-shabby in the vocals department (and really pushing me — no baseball bats necessary — to hit the right word emphases throughout the song), while also supplying the guitars, bass and drums [...]
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JohnFN | Sunday, 7th of March 2010 at 08:54:58 AM
Given the supposed fiscal priorities of the new, better-than-ever, GOP, where were they during Jim Bunning’s budget stand last week?
Michelle Malkin takes the party to task for its lack of testicular fortitude.
And you know that it’s the question that will hang over the Republican Party from now until November as it tries to persuade [...]
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Mike | Sunday, 7th of March 2010 at 07:43:12 AM
I’ve gotten behind on my postings, and it’s use-it-or-lose-it time, so here’s an info-dump for you.
It’s a Mike-a-pa-looza!
POLITICS:
The mighty Tom Veal does a good job of explaining why Obamacare ducks the real issue: the spiraling cost of health care. (Emphasis added.)
Nothing at all in the Democrats’ plan even tries to make medical resources more abundant. [...]
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Floyd | Saturday, 6th of March 2010 at 01:53:42 PM
Federal pay has now officially outstripped private sector pay. From USA Today:
Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds.
Accountants, nurses, chemists, surveyors, cooks, clerks and janitors are among the wide range of jobs that get paid more [...]
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Rufus | Friday, 5th of March 2010 at 01:52:01 PM
Buzz on this documentary has been heating up in the blogosphere lately and, as www.threedonia.com’s resident evil industrialist I figure I ought to comment on it. I am awaiting this movie the same way Porvaznik and JohnFN await the first pitch on opening day! I hope to see it in a theater. If not, I’ll buy [...]
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Floyd | Thursday, 4th of March 2010 at 08:27:54 PM
First term Massachusetts Congressman Eric Massa — a DEMOCRAT — is not seeking reelection this fall. He says the reason is his health… others say it is that he made unwanted advances to a male staffer. Massa is married with kids.
From Politico.com:
First-term Rep. Eric Massa announced Wednesday that he will not seek reelection, [...]
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Rufus | Thursday, 4th of March 2010 at 02:21:17 PM
The quote, “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture” has been attributed to everyone from Thelonius Monk to Frank Zappa to Elvis Costello to Steve Martin. Its origin is hard to pin down, but I’ve always liked the sentiment; the two things (writing/music or dancing/architecture) are so unrelatable that it is nonsensical to attempt [...]
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trzupr | Thursday, 4th of March 2010 at 08:57:22 AM
As long as we’re talking about Nazis, how about considering the electronic variety? When they first started hitting the streets, red-light cameras seemed like a good idea. We’ve all seen people screaming through red lights and we’ve all had to jam on our brakes because some idiot decided that he was going to make a [...]
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Floyd | Thursday, 4th of March 2010 at 07:04:11 AM
149 years ago today — Lincoln’s First Inauguration:
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. I can not be ignorant of the fact that [...]
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Floyd | Wednesday, 3rd of March 2010 at 07:07:14 PM
It seems they are the scourge of Western Civilization. Theodore Dalrymple, one of my favorite writers, recently got a parking ticket over in the UK and he blogged about it at his blog (group blog) The Social Affairs Unit:
The alacrity, efficiency and speed with which monies are collected from certain members of the public [...]
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Floyd | Wednesday, 3rd of March 2010 at 10:14:34 AM
I thought wimmins were supposed to be enlightened benevolent rulers — all-wise Earth mothers. Somehow more competent in the ways of peace and diplomacy. Welcome to the big time ladies! Get a load of this from the Times of London about our Secretary of State chatting with Argentina’s La Presidente about the [...]
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Eric | Tuesday, 2nd of March 2010 at 12:14:10 PM
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While Floyd tended to a gout-stricken foot — get well soon, Mr. Turbo — the RF3D team soldiered on, welcoming guest Christian Toto to the fun. Naturally, he shares his Oscars picks and since he was kind enough to stick around for a few extra minutes, we ragged on Hollywood’s obsession with re-makes, [...]
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Floyd | Tuesday, 2nd of March 2010 at 10:02:04 AM
Let me preface this post regarding the Chicago gun ban case by saying this: I think the Chicago ordinance is foolish, evil, stupid, and an abomination. The plaintiff, Mr. McDonald is correct when he says the city government favors thugs over him. It does. I also believe Heller v. DC was correctly [...]
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trzupr | Tuesday, 2nd of March 2010 at 09:00:47 AM
Today is a big day for the Second Amendment as the Supreme Court begins to hear arguments about the city of Chicago’s handgun ban. One of the plaintiffs is an elderly self-described liberal Democrat who lives in Morgan Park, a rough neighborhood on the south side, Otis McDonald. The tough old codger wants to be [...]
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Floyd | Saturday, 27th of February 2010 at 10:55:50 AM
We need some more of this and while I agree that POTUS and the office deserve respect — there’s a way to be direct and confrontational without ad hominem.
h/t Jonah Goldberg
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Floyd | Saturday, 27th of February 2010 at 09:13:57 AM
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Rufus | Thursday, 25th of February 2010 at 09:49:06 PM
I don’t want to belong to any Congress that would have me as a member.
As I wrote in an earlier post, I think the Republicans failed to hit a home run today. They made some good, key points, but I think they failed to communicate what is most essential. Here is a [...]
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Rufus | Thursday, 25th of February 2010 at 05:59:45 PM
The Emperor Legislator has no clothes.
I heard some of today’s Health Care summit on the radio, but I have not seen any of the footage. Who won? From what I’ve heard I think the Republicans did, but it was like a baseball game where both teams allow a few runs to score because [...]
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Floyd | Thursday, 25th of February 2010 at 11:57:58 AM
Threedonia friend, sometime Radio Free Threedonia co-host Daniel Crandall has a great post over at his home digs — S.T. Karnick’s The American Culture — highlighting an idea that Sarah Palin would be better served by forgoing a political run for a career as a media player — a la Oprah Winfrey.
Daniel points us to [...]
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Floyd | Thursday, 25th of February 2010 at 11:23:49 AM
Alec Baldwin will resume co-hosting duties alongside Robert Osborne on Turner Classic Movies’ “The Essentials” on March 8. First up will be Elia Kazan’s A Streetcar Named Desire. I have wanted to hate Baldwin for at least a decade, but dammit between Hunt For Red October, The Cooler, (he was the best thing [...]
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Floyd | Thursday, 25th of February 2010 at 07:10:45 AM
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Floyd | Thursday, 25th of February 2010 at 06:11:00 AM
Want to know why Ron Paul will NEVER be President? This pretty much sums it up. There are plenty of good reasons to dislike the Federal Reserve… and then there are Paulie’s reasons. Cocoa Puffs anyone?
h/t: Jonah Goldberg at The Corner
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Christian Toto | Wednesday, 24th of February 2010 at 09:57:51 PM
Today’s movie goers are accustomed to getting lectured at the cinemaplex.
Narrative films (“Lions for Lambs”) and documentaries alike (“Food, Inc.,” “Capitalism: A Love Story”) jam their perspectives down the viewers’ throats.
But horror movies are often far more effective vehicles for sending socially aware messages.And genre fans don’t seem to mind.
Zombie king George A. Romero may [...]
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Eric | Wednesday, 24th of February 2010 at 11:25:57 AM
No embedding available just yet, so please go check out the trailer here. Needless to say, looks pretty damn awesome!
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Veruckt | Tuesday, 23rd of February 2010 at 08:33:26 PM
I believe Joe Biden actually typed the text in this picture.
After suffering through the dribble that is President Obama’s latest “healthcare proposal” I have come to one very important conclusion.
Here is my revelation. I have played Monopoly with 5 year olds who have a better understanding of economics than our [...]
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Outlaw13 | Monday, 22nd of February 2010 at 04:01:11 PM
From the blog of David Bellavia comes this story about a SGT from the Mississippi National Guard and the President of the United States of America.
Together we made our way to the White House for breakfast in the Rose Garden with the Bush. Well, I was walking. Brooks was rolling.
Sergeant William “Bill” Brooks joined the [...]
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JohnFN | Monday, 22nd of February 2010 at 08:14:54 AM
I’m not one to espouse the greatness of political action gatherings, be it the recent Tea Party Convention in Tennessee (which adhered to all the contrivance and big-money boosterism actual Tea Partiers loathe), or CPAC, which I’ve never could tell from one year or the other what it is.
One thing I know it isn’t is [...]
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Eric | Monday, 22nd of February 2010 at 07:17:04 AM
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Quicker than Rich, er, knows how to slap down an uneducated global warming alarmist, we at RF3D proudly bring you our latest conversations. Actor and producer Stelio Savante gives us the scoop on and the importance of the LA premiere of 110 Stories, now also featuring D.B. Sweeney, and even brings along Bolivar [...]
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