A stricken Allied bomber, the German ace sent to shoot it down and a truly awe inspiring story of wartime chivalry.
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Tonight we listen to a song from two-time Academy Award-winning actor Anthony Quinn’s ill-considered, brief, and possibly Shatner-influenced foray into pop music. Released in the UK in 1967 as the B-side to a single called “I Love You And You Love Me”, the intendedly romantic number evokes not so much love and affection as a looming figure holding a garrotte and a roll of duct tape. Here, backed by the Harold Spina Singers, who do all the actual singing, is Quinn delivering the colossal misfire called Sometimes.
Enjoy.
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
The detectives spotting photographic fakes
h/t Bob H.
Those Moderate Muslims!
Jerusalem Post: Some 250 people stone police station in Paris suburb after man arrested for assaulting officer during identity check of wife.
“An honest conversation about race? Bring it on.”
We’re not allowed to discuss, during this “honest conversation”, the motivations of both people involved in the incident that caused the “honest conversation.” If we were, we’d be discussing the hip-hop culture and its macho bullshit. We’d be discussing broken families. We would be discussing street fighting. We would be discussing how a kid gets suspended three times from school. We’d dive into the world Trayvon Martin lived in to see what transpires during 17 years of life that would give someone the idea that jumping a guy you didn’t know was a thing you could do without serious consequences.
But we’re not having that conversation. We’re not being honest.
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Helen Thomas, Dead At 92
This day an eerie silence fell on American journalism's attic.
— James Taranto (@jamestaranto) July 20, 2013
Free Big Meany!
Sun News: Manitoba PC MLA Kelvin Goertzen debates the merit of his cyber bullying legislation with Ezra Levant.
Detroit: The Dictionary Definition of “Progressivism”
Mark Steyn succinctly explains how six decades of “progressive” policies have absolutely destroyed a once great American city:
Given their respective starting points, one has to conclude that Detroit’s Democratic party makes a far more comprehensive wrecking crew than Emperor Bokassa ever did. No bombs, no invasions, no civil war, just “liberal” “progressive” politics day in, day out. Americans sigh and say, “Oh, well, Detroit’s an ‘outlier.'” It’s an outlier only in the sense that it happened here first. The same malign alliance between a corrupt political class, rapacious public-sector unions, and an ever more swollen army of welfare dependents has been adopted in the formally Golden State of California, and in large part by the Obama administration, whose priorities — “health” “care” “reform,” “immigration” “reform” — are determined by the same elite/union/dependency axis. As one droll tweeter put it, “If Obama had a city, it would look like Detroit.”
In Canada, one wonders if devout NDP and Liberal supporters are taking note of Detroit’s destruction?!
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It’s Friday night, so we’re gonna Rip It Up. Just don’t throw your back out.
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QOTD
If Zimmerman wanted Obama to leave him alone, he should have just killed a US ambassador.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 20, 2013
Heading South
Ingham County Circuit court judge Rosemary Aquilina, delivering her ruling that Detroit’s federal bankruptcy filing be withdrawn:
“It’s cheating, sir, and it’s cheating good people who work. It’s also not honoring the president…“
Wow.
Aquilina said she would make sure President Obama got a copy of her order. “I know he’s watching this,” she said…
h/t marc in calgary
White Parents, It’s No Longer Safe to Let Your Teenage Sons Outside!
Pure Detroit
Take Me, Obama
Bottom line: For almost fifteen minutes it was hard to tell if you were watching a cable news network, or a slumber party-cam with five breathless Beliebers after a Justin Bieber concert.
Indeed, it was a climactic moment.
Oh, Frack!
A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy told The Associated Press.
After a year of monitoring, the researchers found that the chemical-laced fluids used to free gas trapped deep below the surface stayed thousands of feet below the shallower areas that supply drinking water, geologist Richard Hammack said.
More: Gasland II’s Luddite Slander Of ‘Fracking’ Is The Latest Technophobe Attack On Progress
Embrace Hollywood
All has gone according to plan. MT @JeffBallingall 'socialist' Michael Moore is worth $50M and the city of Detroit is literally bankrupt
— katewerk (@katewerk) July 19, 2013
“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal”
…what landed was a bombshell. And Democrats know it. Which is why they are so desperate to make the investigation go away. They know, as Republicans do, that the chief counsel of the IRS is one of only two Obama political appointees in the entire agency.
[…]
In April 2010, Hull was assigned to scrutinize certain tea-party applications. He requested more information from the groups. After he received responses, he felt he knew enough to determine whether the applications should be approved or denied.
But his recommendations were not carried out.
Mr. Hull told House investigators that at some point in the winter of 2010-11, Ms. Lerner’s senior adviser, whose name is withheld in the publicly released partial interview transcript, told him the applications would require further review:
Q: “Did [the senior adviser to Ms. Lerner] indicate to you whether she agreed with your recommendations?”
A: “She did not say whether she agreed or not. She said it should go to chief counsel.”
Q: “The IRS chief counsel?”
A: “The IRS chief counsel.”
Gooseberry Lake 4-H Rodeo
Parenting Fact: If a junior steer rider touches a Subaru commercial, the universe will explode.
Click for a fantastic series of shots by SDA veteran Sean McCormick.
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
They lead Americans to believe that their focus is on rogue, unscrupulous dog breeders, but in a recent interview, the ASPCA admitted that they consider even law-abiding dog breeders to be “puppy mills.” Animal rights activists hold the belief that bringing new, pure-bred dogs into existence is unethical so long as there are dogs in shelters. Thus, they seek to put every law-abiding dog breeder permanently out of business by any means necessary.
Their public relations war against dog breeding has raked in countless millions from unsuspecting donors who are unaware of the fact that almost none of this money actually goes to the care of dogs. The numbers of abused animals are inflated and exaggerated to the point where you would think that puppy mills were an epidemic. In reality, almost all dog breeders are hard-working, rural Americans, who take very good care of their animals.
Recently, the activists have turned to a disturbing, new tactic of singling out individual breeders and publishing their names, their addresses, and photographs of their breeding establishments. Where do they obtain such information, one might ask? The answer: None other than our own government, courtesy of the United States Department of Agriculture.
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Watch Jumpy the dog in action, folks. You won’t regret it.
h/t No Guff
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