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Austin City Limits on PBS is showing Stevie Ray Vaughan outtakes, and it is just spectacular. I saw him in the 80’s when I lived in Poughkeepsie, NY and he was just amazing. I have seen A LOT of concerts (the majority of them Dead shows), but Stevie Ray was the best I have ever seen.
Stevie Ray Vaughan is dead, and Eminem is up for an Oscar. I think I am going to cry.
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Just read some outstanding news, via the Dailypundit.
Arab News cartoonist Mahmoud Kahil died yesterday after undergoing surgery at a British hospital.
An internationally known political cartoonist, Kahil was the technician in charge of the publications of the Saudi Research & Publishing Company, which publishes Arab News and 16 other publications.
This particular anti-semitic swine will not be missed.
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Earlier today, the Vodkapundit displayed the text of a letter to Yasser Arafat from Ingrid Newkirk. I thought it was a joke. Sully points out the actual link on the PETA website. Why did I think it was a joke? Here is the text:
Your Excellency:
I am writing from an organization dedicated to fighting animal abuse around the world. We have received many calls and letters from people shocked at the bombing in Jerusalem on January 26 in which a donkey, laden with explosives, was intentionally blown up.
All nations behave abominably in many ways when they are fighting their enemies, and animals are always caught in the crossfire. The U.S. Army abandoned thousands of loyal service dogs in Vietnam. Al-Qaeda and the British government have both used animals in hideously cruel biological weaponry tests. We watched on television as stray cats in your own compound fled as best they could from the Israeli bulldozers.
Animals claim no nation. They are in perpetual involuntary servitude to all humankind, and although they pose no threat and own no weapons, human beings always win in the undeclared war against them. For animals, there is no Geneva Convention and no peace treaty
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Clubbeaux has fancy new digs. Go check em out.
And that is one mean looking harp seal.
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If you read only one thing today, it should be John Hawkin’s outstanding interview of Mark Steyn. Here is a snippet:
John Hawkins: Who do you see winning the Democratic primary and taking on George Bush in 2004?
Mark Steyn: Not the newly Jewish John Kerry, or whatever his original name is. There’s an Irish butter called Kerrygold, which seems vaguely apt. John Kerry is this season’s Al Gore: he’s being defined by the jokes about him. Not Howard Dean: he’s a lightweight already way out of his league, and his “pro-choice” pandering was pathetic even by Dem standards; he all but called for audience volunteers so he could demonstrate his bona fides by performing a partial-birth abortion on them.
Go read the entire interview, as it is well worth your time.
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Mike at Cold Fury is just unloading on people today:
One more thing I’d like to leave you with on this topic:
PRINCETON, NJ — Americans have a sharply more unfavorable image of France than they have had at any point over the past decade. Favorable opinions of the country have dropped 20 points in the last year, while unfavorable opinions have risen by 17 points. Americans’ attitudes toward Germany, which, like France, has balked at approving the U.S. position on the necessity of military action against Iraq, have also become substantially more negative since last year. The image of North Korea in the minds of Americans, already quite negative, has become even more so this year compared to last.
Voila, Pierre; there you have it: the Voice of the American Street. Hey, snail-eaters, can I get a puling, sniveling “Why do they hate us?” Got that in a French accent, plus-size?
Didn’t think so.
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Not even a dishonorable mention for Balloon Juice in John Hawkins’s First Annual Warblogger Awards. I did vote for myself as most under-rated- so I know I got at least one vote.
Bastards. I hate all of you.