Elvis introduces the band

h/t lost melodies
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Midweek Open

Presenting the 60 cal hand canon.

h/t FHK

4/30/75

Thirty-three years ago today, communist North Vietnamese troops entered Saigon and seized control of the government that was once the democratic South Vietnam.
The Fall of Saigon (in Vietnamese: Sự kiện 30 tháng 4 - or the “April 30 Incident” is also called by many Vietnamese Ngày mất nước - literally, “The Day of losing the [...]

Paris declares war on rats

from BBC
The city, with its canals, river and restaurants is something of a rodent paradise, experts say.
There are four times as many rats as humans in Paris - perhaps eight million in total, according to the council.
A city-wide information campaign, followed by inspections, aims to reduce the numbers of rats on the streets ahead of [...]

Does J. Wright Remember the Zebra Killings?

Rev J. Wright has been all over the news for the past few days, and the following was just one of many very revealing comments. His defense of the Nation of Islam, and Louis Farrakhan, at the National Press Club was vintage left-wing “victim politics”…. (HotAir has the clip)

“Louis Farrakhan is not my enemy. [...]

Chocolate reduces pregnancy complication risk

Chocolate, Nature’s perfect food.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Indulging in chocolate during pregnancy could help ward off a serious complication known as preeclampsia, new research suggests.
Chocolate, especially dark chocolate, is rich in a chemical called theobromine, which stimulates the heart, relaxes smooth muscle and dilates blood vessels, and has been used to treat chest pain, [...]

Sunday Vids

A couple of Lone Star themes, from Delbert McClinton, and Gary P. Nunn.

Serial killer targets young college men?

Could there be a calculated, cross-country plot to kill young college men? It seems a little hard to believe, but two New York detectives say they can prove it.
The stories are the same all over the country–an athletic, intelligent, well-liked college student goes missing.Family and friends launch a massive search. Weeks [...]

Beetlemania

First it was cow farts, then it was moose belches. And now, it is … drumroll, please …
beetles. No, not the Lennon/McCartney variety.
An outbreak of mountain pine beetles in British Columbia is doing more than destroying millions of acres of lodgepole pines: By 2020, the beetles will have done enough [...]

Black Conservatism

Ta-Nehisi Coates, writing in the Atlantic, has penned an article that will leave me in a reflective mood for some time.
It’s about race. It’s about culture. It’s about America. And, it is an honest appraisal of our unfinished business as a uniquely American culture — a frank and unflinching glimpse into the [...]

Stocking up

WSJ’s Brett Arends opined the other day that “maybe it’s time for Americans to start stockpiling food.” Maybe it is.

Nuke the North Pole?

Phil Chapman is a geophysicist and astronautical engineer who lives in San Francisco. He was the first Australian to become a NASA astronaut. He is also part of the “tiny minority” of flat-earth, knuckledragging, mouthbreathing deniers of The World According to Gorp.
Phil’s piece in The Australian looks at the lack of recent sunspot activity, [...]

Obama’s terrorist buds

”I don’t regret setting bombs,” Bill Ayers said. ”I feel we didn’t do enough.” Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970’s as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago.
Dinitia Smith’s NYT article (published 9/11/01) is saved in the JKN [...]

Doritos promotes anti-gun activitist

From GunsNet forums, via FreeRepublic …
Frito-Lay/Doritos advertises the anti-gun actions of Vox Populi, along with the cliched “for the children” reasoning, to market this special promotion of Doritos chips.

Be sure to drop Frito Lay a line to let them know what you think.
See also: “Ban guns? I don’t think so”

Obama: soft on crime, weak on defense

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Iran will defend “oppressed muslims”

From Breitbart…
A high-ranking Iranian cleric on Friday said the country should grow into a military super power to defend all Muslims, following an army parade at a time of mounting tension with the West.”In a not so distant future, we should reach a point to have the most powerful military equipment in the world so [...]

To bring peace to the Afghans, talk to the Taleban

Adam Holloway says that Britain’s strategy in Afghanistan is misconceived. Nato’s military presence should be reduced and the battle for hearts and minds fought more imaginatively
They do not like the F-word in Whitehall, but failure stares us in the face in southern Afghanistan. For three years we have deluded ourselves that we can defeat the [...]

Blogbreakus interruptus

We interrupt this Blog Break to bring you this special post:

Romney’s Top 10 Reasons He Dropped Out of Presidential Race

No. 10: There weren’t as many Osmonds as he thought.
No. 9: Got tired of the corkscrew landings of his campaign plane while under fire.
No. 8: As a lifelong hunter, I didn’t want to miss the start of varmint season.
No. 7: There wasn’t room for two Christian leaders in the presidential race.
No. 6: I was upset [...]

Home is Where Again?

My mom and I saw my youngest brother off at the airport this morning. It had been a long time between visits (where does the time go?) and mom was very affected by her baby leaving.
“I told Steve that when Bob (stepdad, who has end-stage COPD) dies, I’m going to move up there near him.”
I [...]

blog break

I need a few days. See y’all next week.

Europe or Eurabia?

Daniel Pipes says,
“I foresee potentially one of three paths for Europe: Muslims dominating, Muslims rejected, or harmonious integration.”
Great read.

The bitterness gaffe

Obama’s bitterness gaffe, released by a still unknown attendee at a San Francisco fundraiser, revealed as much in that short, static-filled recording as any expose written by the finest of “outside” writers. It was the candidate’s own words that convicted him. As much as a photo expose’ by ZombieTime News, the Obama [...]

Church of Oprah

Have you heard about the largest church in the world?
Barry Obama’s biggest supporter, The Oprah, and the New Age Church…..

(hat-tip, Melissa)

Sunday Open

“Bitter Democrats?”
Who would have thunk that? Heh. Democrats have raised the bitterness bar to new heights with each passing news cycle ever since Florida 2000.
This story has legs on steroids.