Since 1895 London has been home to an annual series of summer concerts, spread out over the course of eight weeks from July to September, called the Proms. Originally staged in public spaces (promenades) with the intention of educating English commoners about the pleasures of classical music, the Proms have since become a more widespread cultural tradition. In tonight’s selection, from the 2009 edition of the most popular concert in the series, the traditionally looser, almost giddy annual finale known as The Last Night of the Proms, throngs of jolly pink revelers join the rather impressively attired Sarah Connolly in a rousing performance of Rule Britannia.
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Pick-A-Dick
h/t Edie
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Twenty cats in sinks. (h/t Mike)
This Is Awkward
Arab SPRING! – Libyan militia accused of torturing to death ambassador to France (h/t Adrian)
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
SDA gets results!
David Cameron has been hit by a major protest by Conservative MPs over the Government’s backing for wind farms, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Imams from across Canada and the U.S. have issued a moral ruling condemning honour killings, domestic violence and misogyny as “un-Islamic.”
Because “illegal” just didn’t carry enough weight.
Things You See on America’s Left Coast
Wow, That Was Fast
Mark Steyn provides a clear picture of why so many Moderates and Center-Leftists are frightfully scared to ever deviate out of the role assigned to them by those on the Far Left.
The whole Susan G. Komen Foundation backtracking is discussed here by Dana Loesch.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Look at the people in the video below. Look at their self-satisfied little faces. These are the authors of the toxic sugar article. They are idiots. I do not say that to be insulting, but as a statement of fact. The woman on the right, in particular, should not be trusted with a pair of scissors. She calls herself a “medical sociologist” and works at UCSF. This should disqualify her from going anywhere near a scientific journal. She thinks that sugar is a poison because it is fermented to make alcohol. If you read the Daily Mail, alcohol is made by “distilling sugar”. This is what we’re up against: cretinous arguments made still more ludicrous by a woefully uneducated media.
Read the whole thing. Then send it to 3 random reporters.
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips we cross the Atlantic and then head north to watch Finnish babe magnet Tapani Kansa woo fellow vocalists Terhi Panula and Anu in a scorching Finnish TV performance of Pelkkää Tulta (“Pure Fire”).
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Not Waiting For The Asteroid
Other accounts noted that in addition to threatening the United States, Khamenei said this: “The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor and it will be removed.” While we don’t know how or why a mention of this element of the speech managed to get excised from the account in the Times, it’s a question worth pondering.
Black Caviar
Right To Die
Give the left enough rope, and they’ll hang themselves.
Y2Kyoto: Is That An Icicle In Your Toga?
Or are ya just dying to see me?
Snow fell in Rome today for the first time in 26 years as freezing temperatures took the death toll across Europe to more than 150.
Related heat.
That’s What You Get for Doing Business With Leftists
Hybrid car owners bite the hand that feeds them. Precisely what did large corporations think would happen when they started courting and targeting liberals and socialists?
ht to myself (my apologies to the eye-sensitive folk, I haven’t changed the background yet)
Chicoms To The West Of Us, Marxist To The South
Here we are ….
Beijing-based PetroChina said it has completed the acquisition of a 20% stake in Shell’s 100%-owned land and assets in Groundbirch, in northeastern British Columbia. PetroChina didn’t disclose the value of the deal and Shell declined to comment.
h/t Adrian
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Church And State
CBC: Not Safe For Work
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In tonight’s Tips music Louisiana-born songwriter Lucinda Williams sings a bittersweet song from her 2003 album World Without Tears called Ventura.
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