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Posted by Michael on Saturday, November 25, 2006 4:03:32 PM
Not much to brag about, but when I look up KXPA 1540 AM, which I wrote an article about this month, on Google, two of the top page results are mine. Can you say awesome?


Pacific Publishing Company - The United Nations in Leschi's back ...
Broadcasting right out of Leschi, KXPA 1540 AM provides a venue for a diverse host of shows aimed at ... KXPA is part of the much larger, nationwide Multicult.
www.zwire.com/site/tab5.cfm?newsid=17486202&BRD=855&PAG=461&dept_id=544376&rfi=6 - 46k - Nov 24, 2006 - Cached - Similar pages

Townhall.com - Deschamps Blog

The United Nations in Leschi's back yard: KXPA brings multicultural radio ... KXPA is part of the much larger, nationwide Multicultural Broadcasting Radio ...
deschamps.townhall.com/g/70438263-5a0f-4bfc-a70b-d5b37ab49bae - 79k - Cached - Similar pages


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Booyakasha!! Part II: General Scowcroft

Posted by Michael on Saturday, November 25, 2006 2:41:05 PM
I don't know, I think this is much funnier than Cohen's "Borat" character. Maybe it's just having all these politicians dealing with his crap:


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Did the CIA kill RFK?

Posted by Michael on Saturday, November 25, 2006 2:24:41 PM
Ah, nothing more American than conspiracy theories. This one is courtesy of the Brits, however.
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Are there any LOST fans on Townhall.com?

Posted by Michael on Saturday, November 25, 2006 7:35:27 AM
If so, let's talk about it. I'm not sure what I'm going to be doing with myself while I wait for the season to get started again, other than watch these teaser clips over and over and over again:



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Granny Martyr Video

Posted by Michael on Friday, November 24, 2006 6:37:08 PM
Allah has it.

There are no subtitles but as he says in the post:

they really aren’t needed. You know how these things go by now.
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Harsh words for Putin

Posted by Michael on Friday, November 24, 2006 7:39:44 AM
From the former Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko, who died yesterday:

"You have shown yourself to be unworthy of your office, to be unworthy of the trust of civilized men and women," Litvinenko said in a statement read by his friend Alex Goldfarb.

"You may succeed in silencing one man but the howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr. Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life."

Living in Russia (or having lived in Russia) is not just hazardous for spies, but also for journalists. Yesterday in her Thanksgiving Day post, Michelle Malkin wrote why journalists should be thankful they don't live there:

Give thanks we don't live in Russia, where investigative journalists routinely wind up dead. Last month, unreleting reporter and Putin critic Anna Politkovskaya was found shot dead in her apartment. In the days before her death, Politkovskaya had been working on a story about torture in Chechnya, according to her newspaper Novaya Gazeta. She joins a death toll that includes Paul Klebnikov, the U.S.-born editor of the Russian edition of Forbes, who had been investigating the Russian business underworld, and was gunned down outside his Moscow office in 2004; Valery Ivanov, editor of the newspaper Tolyatinskoye Oborzreniye, also shot dead after investigating organized crime and drug trafficking in 2002; and Larisa Yudina, editor of the opposition newspaper Sovetskaya Kalmykia in southern Russia, who was stabbed to death by former government aides.

TRV has written extensively on this issue.
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Al Jazeera Live Thread

Posted by Michael on Friday, November 24, 2006 7:05:07 AM
Right now, as I write, I'm watching the 15-minute free preview stream of Al Jazeera International. I just watched an ad for Qatar Airways, which was interesting to say the least. There's a show called "Every Woman" which focuses on women's rights throughout the world.

Street Talk: Host is calling Iraq presence a "predicament." I'm noticing from the host of this show that this is almost just like watching the BBC, only slightly Arab-ized. The host has a slick British accent. He's talking about a survey now saying that the Americans are the worst to travellers.

Okay, this show is really bad. The host is now talking about Japanese fashion trends. And they end the show with some weird Reggae/hip hop chanting thing.

The weather lady is a British woman with a blonde bob cut. She's telling us that it'll be rather pleasant in Morocco.

Ads again!! Ugh.

I'm noticing that all the ads seem like the ones that we see in the Olympics. There was just one for Qatar Financial Center that did that whole music video "We're helping the people" thing that's really annoying. Where do they get the music for these things? Oh god, another Qatar Airways ad.

I'm seeing an ad for a documentary on Mohammed Amin that looks interesting.

News: Now we're getting somewhere. The news is showing up. They're going to be talking about a grandmother who became a Palestinian suicide bomber, a KGB spy being killed and Baghdad is filled "cries and screams of Shiites."

Damn, right when it was getting interesting my 15 minute stream ended.

Go fig.
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The Nativity Story

Posted by Michael on Friday, November 24, 2006 1:12:50 AM
I just saw the trailer for the film, The Nativity Story. The film looks great, and I have only one complaint with it. After The Passion of the Christ, I think it would have been worth the effort to try to adopt the dialects spoken during the time of the birth of Christ. I realize the effort that went into The Passion, and that it's not entirely possible to repeat that but it just seems so much more realistic that way.
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Photos from the womb

Posted by Michael on Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:43:56 PM
In the vein of my last post on computer technology being able to let us hear what Adolf Hitler had to say in his home movies, I have another article on technological breakthroughs exposing things we haven't seen before. Quite different from showing the private conversations of a fascist dictator, this one shows the first ever shots of unborn animals.

Here's the opener from the Daily Mail article:

An unborn elephant, tiny but perfect in every way. A dolphin swimming in the womb, just as it will have to swim in the ocean the moment it is born. An unborn dog panting.

The photos are amazing to say the least. Here is a dolphin at 29 weeks:



A dog at 52 weeks:



A dog at 63 weeks:



Wow.
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Hitler's "Bitchiest" Remarks

Posted by Michael on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 11:24:35 PM
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2003/11/03/2h3.jpg

I'm going to take a page from Scatbug's book and critique a news report. This one is a report by Neil Midgley, for the Telegraph, a well known British newspaper. It's very intriguing, and describes what has been found coming out of Adolf Hitler's mouth on silent films, using modern computer technology that is able to "read lips."

The article surprised me here, however:

Film shot towards the end of the war shows Hitler complaining about tremors in his arm, giving more credence to the theory that he was suffering from Parkinson's Disease.

What also becomes clear is that Hitler did not hold back from criticising his inner circle. He is scathing about Himmler's enthusiasm for archaeological digs to establish the origins of the Aryan race but reserved his bitchiest remark for Goering.

Now, I'm not saying I have a problem with it because it's bad language, which it is, but because it's just a bit bizarre and kind of messes up the flow of the entire article. Since when did "bitchiest" turn up in the AP Stylebook?
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Binyamin Netanyahu interviewed by Glenn Beck

Posted by Michael on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 4:14:46 AM
Great stuff. It's all about Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons. Glenn Beck asks Netanyahu why George Bush isn't about the apocalypse talk that Ahmadinejad has been pretty blatant about. I'll put my two cents in. If he did so, he would be decried as a warmonger and whatever path we're building diplomatically to stop Iran from getting the bomb would get lassed up. There's also things like this, but I honestly don't think Bush could give a crap what late night comedians think.


Thanks to Mumbling Mutant for the clip.
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My little conservative bubble Part II

Posted by Michael on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 8:34:40 PM
In a previous post, I cited liberal blogger David Goldstein's disrespectful degredation of Milton Friedman, who recently passed. Here's what he said:

Famed economist Milton Friedman died this week, and in pondering how best to eulogize the Andy Warhol of post World War II economics, I was reminded of another recent death — that of the comment spam that plagued HA on and off for most of the past two years. For if Friedman is a father figure to free market advocates everywhere, then spammers, comment or otherwise, are surely his rightful heirs — the logical online manifestation of a selfish and mean-spirited ideology that looks to Friedman for its economic scholarship and Ayn Rand for its moral philosophy (such as it might be.)

I checked his blog again, and Goldstein is acting as if he's surprised to be accused of being disrespectful to Freidman:

Apparently, quite a few people thought my piece on comment spam was disrespectful to Milton Friedman… which kind of surprised me because I didn’t really think the post was about Milton Friedman.

Um, yeah. That makes sense, seeing as the title of the post was "On Milton Friedman, comment spam, and the amorality of the market."

As I did in the post that preceded this one, I'll point you to a better representation of who Milton Friedman was. TRV collected several different articles about Friedman in a post creditting the brilliant economist.
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D is for Dishonesty

Posted by Michael on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 7:54:01 PM

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United Nations' priorities

Posted by Michael on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 6:58:55 PM
More people have been killed in the conflict in Darfur than during the entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet the United Nations is fixated on punishing Israel for weapons they may have used.

Kofi Annan has admitted today that they have some priority problems at the UN. Would have been a little more useful if you had said something when you weren't about to depart as Secretary General, Kofi.

The United Nations Human Rights Council should broaden its focus beyond the Palestinian-Israeli issue to avoid accusations it is one-sided, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Tuesday.

Speaking to reporters in Geneva for the last time before he steps down as secretary-general at the end of the year, Annan said the council’s preoccupation with Israel’s actions in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories while ignoring the situation in Darfur had caused some to wonder whether it had “a sense of fair play.”


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"This is DNN"

Posted by Michael on Monday, November 20, 2006 11:29:40 PM
What if today's mainstream media were covering World War II? That's the premise of "This is DNN," which Hot Air has a clip of.

Great stuff. And they say conservatives have no sense of humor?
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