Archive for March, 2008

Dutch YouTube Posters Say ‘Sorry’ for Fitna

Posted by 3wire on March 31st, 2008

The quote below is from a Wired Blog. The comments are much more interesting than the post it’s self. Hundreds of Dutch citizens have uploaded videos to YouTube showing themselves holding signs with apologies for the film. In other anti-Fitna clips, the subjects simply say the words, “I’m sorry.”

Jordanians Protest Against Fitna

Posted by 3wire on March 30th, 2008

From:Radio Netherlands Jordanians protest against Fitna Published: Sunday 30 March 2008 20:00 UTC Last updated: Sunday 30 March 2008 20:53 UTC Amman – Following the release of Geert Wilders’ film Fitna, a group of 53 Jordanian MPs have delivered a petition to their government in Amman, demanding that it break all diplomatic ties with the [...]

Fitna the Movie: Geert Wilders’ film about the Quran

Posted by 3wire on March 27th, 2008

Fitna the Movie: Geert Wilders’ film about the Quran (English) This contains disturbing images. Watch it anyway. The cowards over at Network Solutions pulled the Filmmakers website. Glen Beck talks about it. UPDATE (3-31-08) LiveLeak pulled the film because of threats. Here is a link to YouTube. We’ll see how long YouTube can hold out.

Obama and the “Race” Card

Posted by 3wire on March 18th, 2008

From: WSJ …Race helps Mr. Obama in another way — it lifts his political campaign to the level of allegory, making it the stuff of a far higher drama than budget deficits and education reform. His dark skin, with its powerful evocations of America’s tortured racial past, frames the political contest as a morality play. [...]

Iraq war disappears as TV story

Posted by Maverick on March 17th, 2008

From MiamiHerald.com It’s possible to pinpoint the exact week that the switch turned off. The war averaged 30 minutes per week of coverage last year on the three network evening newscasts up until Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the U.S. forces, testified in September about the surge’s progress, according to news consultant Andrew Tyndall. In [...]

The Politics of Cigars

Posted by 3wire on March 14th, 2008

From: Kinky Friedman via Texas Monthly …The combined might of our government appears capable only of criminalizing trivia. You’d think George Washington crossed the Delaware expressly to keep Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, and Groucho Marx at least twenty feet away from the entrance to Katz’s Deli. …I respect anyone with genuine intentions regarding the welfare [...]

Armed Student Stops Terrorist

Posted by 3wire on March 9th, 2008

From: WorldNetDaily A gun rights organization in the United States is accusing the media of trying to conceal the fact that a gunman who attacked students at Jerusalem’s Mercaz Harav seminary was stopped by an armed student at the school. Authorities report that Ytizhak Dadon, 40, was a “private citizen who had a gun license [...]

Mexican Flag Flown Above US Flag in Reno

Posted by 3wire on March 5th, 2008

The Mexican flag was flown above the US flag at a Mexican restaurant in Reno NV, but not for long. Our thanks to veteran Jim Broussard for setting things right with the help of his KA-BAR.

We Sleep Safe in Our Beds

Posted by 3wire on March 3rd, 2008

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. – George Orwell

Crazy Liquid

Posted by Q Ball on March 3rd, 2008

I find this fascinating, via the Technology Liberation Front: