Interesting Quote

Last night Ron Paul gave a rousing speech as always but it was his opening line that really caught our attention: “the American Republic hangs by a thread” (Ron Paul 9-2-08 at the Rally for the Republic). Sound ... a single thread. At that critical juncture, this people will step forth and save it from the threatened [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 01:05:23
Blog: Lost and Found Mom...

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Soundtracks With Super Powers

It’s the summer of the superhero. Batman returns in “The Dark Knight,” and we have eponymous films from Hancock, The Incredible Hulk, ... use of some underground rock bands like Savage Republic, where the sound fit the mood of the film ... a venture now so expensive that once you’ve spent the money, you damn well better make sure people [more...]

Date: 2008-07-31 18:04:15
Blog: WNYC - Soundcheck Blog...

If you love films, and are anywhere near Culpeper

or can easily get there, a press release my wife sent on to me might be of interest ... of these - after all, in is not all that far from the People's Republic of Northern Virginia. Peace ... , head of the Moving Image Section of the Library's Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound [more...]

Date: 2008-08-26 01:51:51
Blog: Raising Kaine The Voic...

Youths learn about cultures through dance.

Youths learn about cultures through dance. Musik Tradisional No Comments » The Jakarta Post, Jakarta For most people, ... in the concert. “”The gamelan sound is unique,”" said 10-year-old Sahriaa Fenna Ingratubun from the German ... Education Ministry, the National Commission for UNESCO and Radio of the Republic of Indonesia [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 04:12:36
Blog: Artikel Musik Batak ...

The seductive appeal of poetic fluff

Is it just me being my usual cold calculating self, or is Grace’s blog post The Magic Hour nothing more than a long-winded appeal to emotion? ... known as “the sound of gunfire” and “a bigger war” amont others (creating a strawman) Then lo ... by the citizens of this Republic and duly recognised by the global community and the claims of a people [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 08:00:51
Blog: Filipino Voices...

Ron Paul alternative convention/Liveblogging

Thanks to btchakir of Under the Lobster Scope, posting at Avedon’s Sideshow, Ron Paul’s Rally for the Republic is here ( ... he has never done. He’s just doing it because he believes other people should have freedom. Guess he’s never ... anthem by Sergeant Matt. Coleman, reaching parody level and breaking through with the sound of ripping [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 18:02:35
Blog: Mercury Rising 鳯女...

A case of plagiarism

Let's say you're a professor of Slavic studies or history and a student includes in his term paper a capsule history of Georgia, ... DingDingDingDingDingDingDing! That's the sound of the alarm bell that goes off in your head. You look at the phrase [more...]

Date: 2008-08-11 23:45:58
Blog: The Reality-Based Commu...

If You’re a Liberal, Sarah Palin Scared You

If You’re a Liberal, Sarah Palin Scared You September 4th, 2008 If you are a liberal who believes killing unborn babies is a woman’s right, or you believe two males should be able to marry, then you’re scared to death of Sarah Palin. Her acceptance speech and her manner of delivery - even though her teleprompter was not working - was enough to [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 16:37:00
Blog: April Lorier, Author an...

The 35 Greatest Speeches in History

If a man wishes to become a great orator, he must first become a student of the great orators who have come before him. He must immerse himself in their texts, listening for the turns of phrases and textual symmetries, the pauses and crescendos, [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 08:00:56
Blog: The Art of Manliness...

The Rule of Law

I have given four areas where I think that the Democrats are going to leave us worse off if they win the election (energy, international trade, health care). Now I am listing four areas where the Republicans will leave us worse off. One of the key areas is in the area of the Rule of Law [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 22:43:00
Blog: Atheist Ethicist...

Hurricane Gustav tests New Orleans levees

Hurricane Gustav tests New Orleans levees Posted on September 1, 2008 - Filed Under ASID Newsbeat, Crisis Time, Help Today Please, ... of the city and stranding thousands of people. Six inches (15 cm) of water pooled in some streets near ... people fled the Gulf Coast as Gustav approached and only 10,000 were believed to have remained in New [more...]

Date: 2008-09-01 16:00:38
Blog: BadGalsRadio - RootsRo...

Labor Day Weekend Fundamentals

Jerry Crowe of The Los Angeles Times:  “Nobody ever double-dipped quite like Gene Conley. A three-time National League All-Star as a pitcher, the 6-foot-8 right-hander moonlighted as a reserve center and forward for the Boston Celtics. The only athlete to win championship rings in two major U.S [more...]

Date: 2008-09-01 19:41:07
Blog: ballerblogger.com...

Liberal reaction to Palin's speech

I think the most clueless reaction I saw was when Mark Shields on PBS, while praising her delivery, criticized her speech for belittling Barack Obama. Ya think? The meme running through a lot of the media and liberal (or do I repeat myself) reaction to her speech is to criticize her for being negative. Hello!? [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 10:51:59
Blog: Betsy's Page...

Not the Last Word on Sarah Palin

Now that I've gotten over my sophomoric "Sarah Palin is the most gorgeous woman I have ever seen in my life" phase ( ... . Plain talk, humor, and substance sound simple, don't they? Why then is that so rare in politics [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 09:19:20
Blog: Grief in Brief ...

Bruce Sterling’s Sharp Warning, 8 years later

Bruce Sterling’s Sharp Warning, 8 years later August 3rd, ... .  So, what else do people buy when they buy books like CLOCK OF THE LONG NOW by Stewart Brand?  Well, it turns [more...]

Date: 2008-08-04 06:12:33
Blog: The Long Now Blog ...

Conservatives: Making government not work so they can point out how, see, it doesn’t work

If you’ve ever pondered the paradox of why conservative cranks who are against Big Government seem so fond of, well, running for government office, ponder no more. Thomas Frank has the answer: So they can destroy it from the inside. Oh, that sounds suspiciously like a lefty knee-jerk plaint, a progressive’s mewling sound bite about nearly 30 [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 00:31:58
Blog: Las Vegas CityLife Blog...

McCain to return donations from Fla bundler

From AP: John McCain's campaign said Thursday it is returning $50,000 in contributions solicited by a foreign citizen ... and the Dominican Republic. It is illegal for foreigners to contribute their own money to U.S. political campaigns ... some of the people solicited by Abu Naba'a had no intention of supporting McCain for president. Rogers [more...]

Date: 2008-08-08 19:20:31
Blog: The Buzz: Florida Polit...

Live-Blogging the Opening Night of Beijing 2008

WSJ reporters inside the Bird’s Nest and around the Chinese capital share what they’re doing and seeing in real time. Jason Dean, 12:11 A.M., Bird’s Nest: China to the world: Top that! Sky Canaves, 12:05 A.M., East Third Ring Road: The cauldron is the end of the scroll. It looks enormous, and now the real fireworks show begins [more...]

Date: 2008-08-08 10:49:10
Blog: China Journal ...

Ron Paul, A Real Republican Speech …

One day the Republican party may wake up and see the light, but in the mean time, it’s nice to see one guy who has it right ... to restore the republic and actually live by our constitution. No wonder the Republicans wouldn’t let ... for the Republic … It’s not much of an overstatement to say that everyone attending this Rally [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 01:27:24
Blog: Brushfires of Freedom ...

Georgia: A history of the current conflict

« Report from Tbilisi August 26, 2008 The Truth About Russia in Georgia   TBILISI, GEORGIA – Virtually everyone believes Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili foolishly provoked a Russian invasion on August 7, 2008, when he sent troops into the breakaway district of South Ossetia. “The warfare began Aug [more...]

Date: 2008-08-26 16:55:54
Blog: Common Sense and Wonder...

Son of Saul Alinsky: “Obama Learned His lesson Well”

First let’s take a few steps back… ... of hope that they could make things better.” Sound familiar? It should. MinuteGal - Free Republic [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 02:46:39
Blog: Ironic Surrealism II — ...

Ron Paul’s ‘counter-convention’

Christian Porth Aljazeera September 4, 2008 Call it the real Republican convention ... their campaign’s Tuesday night “rally for the republic”, in which they called on the party to “return ... , could almost be accepting the party’s presidential nomination himself. Almost 15,000 people came [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 06:37:42
Blog: conspiracy theories ...

The grandiose one speaks...

Just back from a long weekend beyond the electronic networks of our world, and catching up with the blogs ... me a while to get my bearings....God and this blog's readers know what I sound like at times ... professionals slouched into their seats. The professionals I sat with were Hillary Clinton people [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 19:02:00
Blog: Covenant Zone...

Crisis in the Caucasus. What Were They Smoking in the White House?

Dandelion Salad By Eric Margolis ICH 08/19/08 “Lew Rockwell“ The Bush administration appears to have pulled off its latest military fiasco in the Caucasus. What was supposed to have been a swift and painless takeover of rebellious South Ossetia by America’s favorite new ally, Georgia, has turned into a disaster that left Georgia battered, [more...]

Date: 2008-08-19 20:55:51
Blog: Dandelion Salad...

DWT exclusive! Now it can be told: David S. Broder has been mounted and stuffed for decades. You won't believe who's writing "his" columns!

McCranky -- a reformer in the mold of T.R., says David S. "So, at 72 and with a history of cancer, how could McCain choose a vice presidential nominee who has, let's face it, zero experience in foreign affairs? Being the nominal commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard doesn't count, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 22:30:00
Blog: DownWithTyranny!...

We Need To Be Praying

It is a strange thing indeed to see conservative evangelical Christians aligning themselves with the liberal media and leftist hacks ... at the Constitutional Party website and Ron Paul’s too, to see what the hype is over these people whom so many godly people have flocked to. The Constitutional Party platform is not all that different [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 16:59:21
Blog: The Fair Hills Farm Web...

Sunday morning lifeblogging: adventures in European subtitling

Shot taken from Samurai Champloo About a year ago there was this email exchange between me and some of my AFOE colleagues in which I talked a bit about my daily job as a subtitler. Actually, I was venting. During this exchange I was invited to write a post about subtitling for AFOE [more...]

Date: 2008-08-03 07:00:32
Blog: afoe | A Fistful of Eu...

Liberals Look Worried About Palin… They Should Be

By Betsy Newmark High School Government and History Teacher/Blogger I think the most clueless reaction I saw was when Mark Shields on PBS, ... and Biden with a smile and a wisecrack, she’ll be very successful. We all know that the lines that people [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 15:35:22
Blog: FOX Forum « FOXNews.co...

Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/25/2008

USAClinton Dismisses McCain Ads CanadaThe Taliban Letter to the Canadian People Europe and the EULocal Councils Accused of Spying on Residents’ Sex ... in Israel, 199 Palestinians FreedIsraeli Police Shut Down Islamic InstituteHezbollah and Iran Sound Fresh [more...]

Date: 2008-08-26 00:49:00
Blog: Gates of Vienna...

Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/30/2008

USAIs Obama Talking Secretly With Raul Castro? Europe and the EU“Dutch Spy Recalled From Iran on US Attack Plan”Amsterdam: City Council Rejects Mayor Cohen’s Plea for Mosque SubsidiesDenmark: Parents to Pay for Kids’ VandalismDenmark: Daylight Robbery on StrøgetEast London Council Adapts to RamadanGangmaster Who Raped Journalism Student in Calais [more...]

Date: 2008-08-31 00:57:00
Blog: Gates of Vienna...

An Open Letter to the Taliban

Last Sunday, the Taliban released an open letter to warning Canadians that unless they leave Afghanistan, ... sound high and mighty, but your actions and deeds betray the truth of what you are: a movement [more...]

Date: 2008-08-24 00:07:00
Blog: Gates of Vienna...

Georgia: Dispatches Under Russian Occupation

Gori, Republic of Georgia Russian Roadblock, Gori, Republic of Georgia © Onnik Krikorian 2008 When Russian forces rolled into the strategic Georgian town of Gori, information on the occupation was scarce. Journalists died during Russian bombing [more...]

Date: 2008-08-24 12:53:17
Blog: Global Voices Online ...

A Prostate Exam For Slow Joe

Rush Limbaugh wants to know why Sarah Palin is getting a media uterus exam while Joe Biden "skates"? ... OF HIS LUNGS made him sound like EveryMan. Then Ed noticed the Biden temporal rift ... of economic sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic and said he was against the opening [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 00:49:31
Blog: Hard Starboard ...

It’ll Come To Me

Jump to Comments John McCain is speaking as I write this ... , preposterous moral crusades that so endlessly rock the republic—against the rum demon, against Sunday [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 06:40:51
Blog: his vorpal sword...

Sarah Delivers in Spectacular Fashion

Tonight at the Republican Convention, Sarah Palin faced one of the most daunting tasks a candidate can face, introducing herself, to the nation and a virulently hostile press, as the Republican prospective next vice-president of the United States. While the verdict, as dictated by the polsters may be 5 days away, for this voter, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 05:03:56
Blog: the houston conservativ...

What Should We Make of Sarah Palin?

I read a significant number of blogs and magazines, both in regular print editions and online ... be an amateur at this but then so are all who study these kinds of things and sound impressive [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 19:55:59
Blog: John H Armstrong ...

The Attacks Have Already Begun on Palin

Sen. John McCain's pick of Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate has energized his campaign. It's knocked the Obama convention speech off the front page and people are asking questions about who she is and what she stands for. The McCain/Palin campaign have 66 days to inform the public, but on first blush, [more...]

Date: 2008-08-30 10:15:00
Blog: A Blog For All...

Runaway Train.

I’ve not really been consistent about reminding all of you that my Kewpie Contest is scheduled to end Monday. Bad, bad Margot ... . The politicians bank on our ignorance and our votes are swayed by sound bites or pretty words or appealing faces ... Charles Manson sound like a viable candidate. Seriously folks, what is going on in this country? I wonder [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 09:55:00
Blog: the impatient blogger™...

Warsaw Pact occupation of Czechoslovakia: 40 years later

Video 1: Pictures mostly from Prague. The sound features (otherwise patriotic) radio hosts who are telling the people that it makes no sense to resist physically because the invaders are far too [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 04:31:00
Blog: The Reference Frame...

The Calamity of Bush’s Conservatism

938bu.jpg by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. This talk was delivered at the Rally for the Republic in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on September 2, 2008. Reprinted from LewRockwell.com Sometimes people say that Americans are cynical about politics ... , the opposite is true. That people worked so hard to save this country from the regular politicians speaks [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 06:38:58
Blog: the new citizenship pro...

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

I usually don't buy tickets for movies I know will be bad, but I was bored, and I still kinda like Star Wars ... cooperator isn't a terrible idea, but making him not only speak English, but sound like Truman Capote too [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 18:14:00
Blog: Pretty Sure I'm Right...

The Lifeblood of the Empire

by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. These remarks were delivered at the Rally for the Republic, Target Center, Minneapolis, on September 2. About fifteen years ago a conservative columnist wrote [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 13:10:23
Blog: RevolutionRadio.org ...

OVER 10,000 RON PAUL SUPPORTERS “RALLY FOR THE REPUBLIC” IN MINNEAPOLIS

By Sarah Foster September 5, 2008 MINNEAPOLIS - If the Republican leadership thought that marginalizing Rep ... , if not most of them young — cheering him on, roaring approval when he called for a return to sound ... , the National ID, and the so-called War on Drugs. Paul remarked that essentially the Republic is “ [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 12:51:57
Blog: RevolutionRadio.org ...

Fwd: Wake up America

Wake up America US Weekly Hemorrhages Readership Because Of Sarah Palin Article Posted: 05 Sep 2008 12:37 PM CDT MSNBC is reporting that at least 5,000 readers of the US Weekly magazine have canceled their subscription and the number could be up to 10,000 [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 12:24:57
Blog: Shekinah Mercantile & Y...

Brother against brother

Last Wednesday, I was listening to an interview with our senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson on a local radio station. They radio show announcer asked, "So, how do you feel about John McCain being pro-life since you are pro-choice?" She said that she doesn't label herself as either pro-life or pro-choice [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 14:34:46
Blog: Sophia's wisdom?...

Media for the Many Headed

In the last seven days I have been so overwhelmed with fine media materials on the Net that there is almost too much to post here in the weekly recommendations. So I just provide here what I copy and paste from my bookmarks, too many to explain, just look for yourself and see what you identify with [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 16:38:12
Blog: Soul Sphíncter:The Symb...

i never knew making a difference in the world could taste this good

i met a guy named rob, who plays bass for the youth band at The Austin Stone, this morning at a coffee shop called Dominican Joe ... the year in the US & half the year in the Dominican Republic. She started this coffee shop to help ... in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Makarios provides the coffee for Dominican Joe. they also have a blog [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 17:59:10
Blog: stevenbush.org...

The Man Who Will Be Thursday

Thank-you, thank-you. I am humbled and sobered by my fellow Democrats for the honor you have extended me. And I accept your nomination. We’ve got a lot of work to do, as a campaign, as a party, as a country, to get out of the hole that George Bush and John McCain have dug these past eight years. And I’m eager to get to work [more...]

Date: 2008-08-28 05:51:44
Blog: The American Scene...

Getting to Know Your Olympic Countries, Part III

In capping what might be the most culturally-significant Olympics preview on the entire internet, Stop Mike Lupica and his partner in crime help you get a grip on every country participating in this month’s Summer Games. If you don’t read this, you likely won’t know about the Unified Team [more...]

Date: 2008-08-08 17:30:22
Blog: The Big Lead ...

Sustainability Is Not Rocket Science, But It Is Hard

The Rocky Mountain News reports from Colorado. “The price of homes in the Denver metro area fell 9.4 percent in June from June 2007, according to a report from a New York firm that tracks the 25 largest housing markets in the U.S. Some local experts are critical of the report [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 14:28:48
Blog: The Housing Bubble Blog...

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