SOME BLOGROLL UPDATES....
Sunday, January 28, 2007 at 12:33PM The thing about the blogosphere is that is always changing. Blogs appear, some flourish some vanish. Readers have an infinite choice of blogs - from the profound through the informative to the silly! ATW continues to evolve in its own unique direction but I wanted to take some time out and bring a number of blogs to your attention as I think they are all well done and provide good perspective on a wide variety of issues. Just wanted to recommend the following;
Northern Ireland blogs
What need of further lies? This is an excellent site, principled arguments, well written. I thoroughly recommend it.
Voice4Democracy: This is a campaigning site which seeks to oppose the implementation of the Belfast Agreement lite! I hope those behind it keep sustaining their output, the internet is a powerful mechanism to influence opinion.
The Levee Breaks: I like Mr Levee and his wife who run this site. They are trying to refocus it and are looking for those of a unionist persuasion to contribute to the site. I hope you will consider it, balanced and thoughtful - though not necessarily politically aligned with moi!
Great Britain blogs
Corporate Presenter; This site, run by Jeremy Jacobs, is a lively and interesting read, with great variety of ideas.Well worth adding to your favourites.
Turkey Farm Tales: I know I've linked to Mike's site for a while but he's been busy re-designing it and he tackles some good issues.
US Blogs
Sharon Chadna: Just discovered this gem. Well written, astute and on the money when it comes to the war on militant Islam.
Midnight Blue; Skye from Philly has redesigned her blog and it's a great read that is well worth a visit.
I'm sure I will have missed some but I'll do another blog round up later on...!
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She's a good writer!
I checked out Skye (more on your recommendation than David's, I must confess). However, her implict suggestion in one post that liberals are akin to Nazis, her need to refer to Hillary Clinton repeatedly by an unflattering nickname, and her placing the English Patient in the same class of movies as Casablanca and the Maltese Falcon leads me to the conclusion that beauty may indeed be only skin deep.
Apparently SF have voted to support the police. I'll believe it when I see it happening on the ground. I think the next marching season will be the first major trial of SF cooperation with the PSNI.
Mahons - I'm not suggesting - I'm stating fact, modern day liberal are Nazis - just read the 25 planks of the Nazi party, it is akin to reading DNC talking points. Their core values are essentially identical. Scary, but illuminating.
Hildebeast is an unflattering nickname, Mahon? I find it honest - the woman is ugly inside and out.
Have you read the novel 'The English Patient' by Michael Ondaatje, or did you just watch that Seinfeld episode? If you have read the book, then you would appreciate the minor miracle that is the movie. The superb acting, the directing and the cinematography certainly place this movie among the classics of Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon.
Despite Mahon's inability to recognize and appreciate fine cinema,I do yield that Mahon is the resident expert in superficiality. Do you possess an advanced degree in this speciality?
I made a comment to your post about Clint Eastwood's remarks about Philadelphia.
Some unsolicited advice that I suppose will be unwelcome:
Some of those male images are borderline gay porn--its a free country, but I'd avoid that kind of stuff.
I can attack Hillary and her husband all day long, and do--but I'd lay off the name-calling.When speaking to the public at large, it marginalizes the speaker, and does no harm to Hillary. Trust me.
Hillary's a bad person who is bad for the country, and she is best defeated without calling her names.
I've responded to your comment on MidnightBlue.
Can we call half naked images of girls borderline lesbian porn that men should avoid? If the Man Friday post offends your sensibilites...it is a free country...don't look!
I find your exception to my labeling of Clinton puzzling. Has the numerous labels affixed to President Bush marginalized those name-callers? Perhaps they lack your serious introspection on this matter.
http://midnightbluesays.blogspot.com/2007/01/man-friday_26.html
I don't know what does. The individual concerned basically has his hand on his penis. There is a pretty big market for this kind of thing in the gay market, I've never seen evidence that straight women are much into this. Playgirl magazine, really the only publication of its type, still lives, and it's on life support,
The website you write on here, and the others that I read, do not post images like this, male or female where the subject of the photo has their shorts half down and their hand caressing their sexual equipment.
But yes, post what you want. I will make my viewing decisions accordingly.
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Actually, the worst of the Bush haters ARE marginalized. Air America is an unmitigated flop. Michael Moore is a bit of a joke in mainstream America.
These yahoos did not make Bush unpopular. Bush is unpopular because he is genuinely stupid, a man who cannot even speak,and whose thinking prowess I openly question.
Invading Afghanistan was the right move. Invading Iraq, in my opinion, was also the right move. But the prosecution of that war has been poor. Very poor.
I opposed this man without a record even getting the GOP nomination back in 2000. He was that year's Obama, a man without any real accomplishments.
We need a real leader in 2008.
My money's on Rudy Giuliani. No more on the job training. No more sons of politicians, no wives of politicians either.No more weak minds. I want the real deal this time.
The picture is openly erotic, if you want to infer your own notions of gay porn towards this picture...be my guest. Although have you even glanced at the other Man Friday postings, is it your habit to paint your opinions with such broad strokes?
The michael moore's of this world are marginal beings, but it isn't just the fanatics that embrace the BDS philosophy - it is the base of the DNC and they vote. They also have support with the MSM in dessimating this BDS and it is a powerful tool in their arsenal.
President Bush is to some Americans unpopular because the polls told them so, the media tells horror story after horror story of Iraq,and they are too damn lazy to question the information. The AP trusts Jamil Hussein..so should you.
What has occured in Afghanistan and Iraq is something short of miracle. To liberate and reconstruct TWO nations in under 3 years with such minimal loss of life is UNPRECEDENTED. No time in recorded history has this ever been witnessed. No war has ever been prosecuted where there has been intentional plans to minimize the loss of civilian lives and maximize the deaths of terrorists. Quite frankly, it is safer for Americans in the whole of Iraq than in Philadelphia. The homicide rate in Philly meets or exceeds that of US Troop deaths in Iraq in 2007. But don't you dare call Philly a Quagmire!
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I don't think either country has been reconstructed. Afghanistan is a billion times better than it was under the Taliban, true.
Iraq is a mess. I don't blame Bush or the US for that fact--I blame the Sunni and Shia gangs that are actually killing people--but you can't say that the place has been reconstructed.
I once worked at 48th Street and Sixth Avenue in NYC. Across the street was Iraqi airways. You could buy a ticket from JFK to Baghdad in the 1980s. Try and do that today.
Many Iraqi doctors have left. People are afraid to travel. The electricity does not work. The country ain't rebuilt.
What is with this artifical timetable for reconstruction the liberals have devised for Iraq and Afghanistan? The only reason I can surmise is to push for a rush job in rebuilding these nations and forming their democratic society, thereby ensuring failure. Can someone tell me why liberals hate Iraqis so much that they would destroy any chance for these people to live peacefull lives?
I highly doubt you could purchase airline tickets to Baghdad during the 90's either.
The electricity doesn't work? Hello urban myth! Iraq is a stable country where educational and economic opportunity is now afforded to the 80% of the population that was denied basic rights under the dictatorship. Schools are open; electricity and clean water are reaching new areas; and the torture chambers and rape rooms have been closed. Oil is flowing, and the revenue is not being skimmed away from the people via corrupt practices as it was under Saddam.
Oh speaking of electricity:
<i>TIKRIT, Iraq - The $31.2 million rehabilitation and expansion of a 400kV/132kV substation, along with the five feeders in the Diyala Province , will provide a more reliable power source for more than 63,000 people.
Built by local construction companies with quality assurance managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, these renovations and additions will add stability to Iraq ’s electrical grid. The 400kV substation – called Baghdad East - is considered to be an important component of the national electrical system, having a significant impact on the national grid.
Rehabilitating the substation not only improves the electrical distribution network in the province by reducing the load of the already overloaded substations; it also increases the reliability of the power supplies for domestic, industrial and commercial uses with less down time.</i> <a href="http://milblogging.com/listingDetail.php?id=709">Source </a>
Sheesh. I would have never thought that man was gay - swear to God! lol
Attacking either of the Clintons on their political beliefs is fair play, and nicknames (even of the unflattering type) are part of the poltical heritage: Tricky Dick, Bubba etc. But it is a sign of immaturity to attack a female candidate on her appearance. It undermines what might very well be accurate arguments against her.
My favorite part of the English Patient was, as one sage once wrote, the credits (the appearance of which indicated that the film was at long last over).
However, your choice of The Maltese Falson and Casablance show there is some hope.
I was intrigued to see that Voice4Democracy have managed not to link to ATW yet - despite them getting mentioned here the second they arrived on the net.
No man is a prophet in his own land....!
"Iraq is a stable country"
Bwahahahahahaha!!
Wanna buy a bridge?
"North Korea is a hedonists paradise "
"China is vastly underpopulated"
"Saudi Arabia is too secular"
and many other myth shattering facts....
I was intrigued to see that Voice4Democracy have managed not to link to ATW yet - despite them getting mentioned here the second they arrived on the net.<Q>
That's what I have been thinking too. Very strange. If you look at the comments on the Voice4Democracy site you will see that I have tried to highlight the existence of your site.
Denial is not a river in Egypt, Mahons.
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<i>Suggesting liberals are Nazis demonstrates a disturbing lack of understanding of both groups, a paucity of intellect, and a childish hatred of one's poltical opponents.</i>
How many times have liberals comparted President Bush to a Chimp? I believe some of them are now Democratic Senators...
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<i>But it is a sign of immaturity to attack a female candidate on her appearance. It undermines what might very well be accurate arguments against her.</i>
Quoting Seinfeld again?
Again, fine cinema is not really your forte, Mahons.
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<i>My favorite part of the English Patient was, as one sage once wrote, the credits (the appearance of which indicated that the film was at long last over).</i>
So your defense is that someone called Bush a chimp so that naturally justifies your descent to a third grade level of political commentary? Aren't you supposed to be better than that? Or are you just a parrot of far right-wing blogging styles?
Was that a Seinfeld quote? I thought it came from somewhere else. God that show continues to amaze. You blindly ignore my credit for your selections of Casablanca and the Maltese Falcon as great films, but like many bloggers you are not capable of seeking common ground, and anyone who does not agree with you 100% must be wrong all the time.
Cheers!