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      <title>Endorsements</title>
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      <published>2008-05-14T13:48:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-05-14T13:49:24Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>the dissident frogman</name>
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<category term="USA" scheme="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/records/category/USA/" label="USA" /><category term="Wallpapers" scheme="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/records/category/Wallpapers/" label="Wallpapers" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/images/uploads/obama_jihad_approved_680.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="475" /></p>The Obama campaign offers <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/downloads/">several logos</a> for many kinds of activists ("Latinos for Obama", "Americans abroad for Obama", "Women for Obama", "African Americans for Obama&quot;, <br />
&quot;Bitter White Country Folks for Obama&quot;<sup><small>1</small></sup>) but some of his most high profile supporters were missing.<br />
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No problemo. I'll help.<br />
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Hamas and Hezbollah Jihadists can download their "Hamas (et al) for Obama" wallpaper here:<br />
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Regular: <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/images/uploads/obama_jihad_approved_1600.jpg">1600x1200</a> | <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/images/uploads/obama_jihad_approved_1280.jpg">1280x960</a> &mdash; Wide: <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/images/uploads/obama_jihad_approved_1680.jpg">1680x1050</a> | <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/images/uploads/obama_jihad_approved_1920.jpg">1920x1200</a><br />
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Hillary is <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/link/youve-just-been-passed-by-a-girl/">a tough adversary</a>. Methinks Barack <em>Hussein</em> Obama will need all the support he can get. <p>---<small><ol><li>Well, maybe I just made up this one. A bit.</li></ol></small></p><p>[ <small><em>Members have access to a larger selection of RSS feeds, including single language ones. Membership is free.</em> <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/registration/"><em>Information here</em></a></small> ]</p>]]></content>
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      <title>Expecting cries of Israeli &#8220;censorship&#8221; anytime now</title>
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      <published>2008-05-12T08:12:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-05-12T08:12:57Z</updated>
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            <name>the dissident frogman</name>
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<category term="France" scheme="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/records/category/France/" label="France" /><category term="Masters of Disinformation" scheme="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/records/category/masters-of-disinformation/" label="Masters of Disinformation" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[Well, I'm not holding my breath waiting for France 2 and their abject scumbag of a "reporter" Charles Enderlin to "admit to the(ir) fraudulent report, publicly clear the State of Israel and the Israel Defense Forces of any fault and publish an official apology to the families of the hundreds of terror victims who were killed and/or injured as a result of their fraudulent report." re the al-Dura affair, but it would be a good thing indeed if these (French state owned and ran) mouthpieces of Palestinian terrorism were barred from making up their stories from within Israel.<br />
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Press release below, note the, well, <em>important note</em> (indeed) on the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, enabled by Charles Enderlin and France 2's fraudulent report:<blockquote>HIGH COURT TO HEAR SHURAT HADIN'S PETITION TO REVOKE FRENCH 2 TV'S PRESS CREDENTIALS<br />
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WHO: Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Director, Shurat HaDin Charles Enderlin, France 2 TV, Israel Government Press Office (GPO)<br />
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WHAT: Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center v. France 2, Charles Enderlin, & Israel Government Press Office<br />
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WHERE: Israel's Supreme Court Building, Jerusalem, Israel<br />
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WHEN: Monday, May 12, 2008 - 09:00 AM<br />
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NEWS ITEM: Israel's Supreme Court will hear arguments against France 2 and reporter Charles Enderlin on the demand that their press credentials in Israel be revoked as a result of their fraudulent news report in regards to the death of 12-year-old Mohammad al-Dura on September 30, 2000.<br />
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The Plaintiff, Shurat Hadin Israel Law Center, is demanding that France 2, and its reporter Charles Enderlin no longer be permitted to practice journalism in Israel until such time as they admit to the fraudulent report, publicly clear the State of Israel and the Israel Defense Forces of any fault and publish an official apology to the families of the hundreds of terror victims who were killed and/or injured as a result of their fraudulent report.<br />
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IMPORTANT NOTE: Among the many murders committed by terrorists to "avenge" the death of al-Dura was the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl. His murderers clearly cited the death of al-Dura as one of the reasons he was murdered. This is but one of the many cases in which the fraud perpetrated by Charles Enderlin and France 2 caused harm to an innocent individual - in this case the death of a fellow journalist.<br />
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For More Information or to schedule an interview please contact: Nitsana Darshan-Leitner America (011). Europe 00 972.52.383.7020 or Mike Cohen (011).(00) 972.54.499.6453<br />
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Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center is a Jewish human rights institute based in Israel and staffed by some of the country's leading activist attorneys.<br />
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Shurat HaDin is dedicated to providing legal representation and resources for the numerous courtroom struggles, which are being waged in the Israeli, American and European courts on behalf of the Jewish State and serves as a central clearinghouse and litigation base for the multifarious legal battles that have been thrust upon Israel's citizens during recent years.</blockquote>Kick them out, and dry the swamp. One journalist at a time.  <p>[ <small><em>Members have access to a larger selection of RSS feeds, including single language ones. Membership is free.</em> <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/registration/"><em>Information here</em></a></small> ]</p>]]></content>
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      <title>(Red) Star Rising&#160;&#215; Etoile (rouge) montante</title>
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      <published>2008-05-12T07:52:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-05-12T07:53:20Z</updated>
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[<a name="584eng"></a><p><small>English | <a href="#584fre">Fran&ccedil;ais</a></small></p><p><strong>(Red) Star Rising</strong></p><p><em>Larry's a poet. But he works for an advertising agency.</em></p>On display in Paris, one of the latest ads for the Eurostar is symptomatic of everything that's wrong with France in particular, and the Eurozone in general.<br />
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On <em>le jour 359 de Sarko</em>, Damian the last survivor of what was probably the most cleverly named blog ever ("Pave France, the British need more parking") <a href="http://www.e-nough.hmdnsgroup.com/archives/001913.html">brilliantly <em>deconstructs</em> the absurdity</a>. Indeed, only in France could one devise an ad sporting a <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/nordlinger/nordlinger200509270142.asp">Communist sociopath</a> as the Lord and Savior just to promote a leisure trip to an English pub&mdash;and these people, remember, fancy themselves as highly cultured and sophisticated.<br />
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With Cuba in a sort of post-Communist dictatorship limbo and China moving steadily towards Nationalism and Militarism hidden behind a gross caricature of Capitalism, my money is on France to remain the last of the genuine Communist country&mdash;spiritually, if not practically&mdash;after all have vanished in the cesspool of History. <p>[ <small><em>Members have access to a larger selection of RSS feeds, including single language ones. Membership is free.</em> <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/registration/"><em>Information here</em></a></small> ]</p><a name="584fre"></a><p><small><a href="#584eng">English</a> | Fran&ccedil;ais</small></p><p><strong>Etoile (rouge) montante</strong></p>
Visible &#224; Paris, l'une des derni&#232;res pubs pour l'Eurostar est symptomatique de tout ce qui ne va pas avec la France en particulier et l'Eurozone en g&#233;n&#233;rale.<br />
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En ce <em>jour 359 de Sarko</em>, Damian, le dernier survivant de ce qui fut sans doute le blog le plus astucieusement nomm&#233; ("Pave France, the British need more parking") <a href="http://www.e-nough.hmdnsgroup.com/archives/001913.html"><em>d&#233;construit</em> brillamment l'absurdit&#233;</a>. Il n'y a qu'en France, en effet, que l'on pouvait concevoir une annonce repr&#233;sentant un <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/nordlinger/nordlinger200509270142.asp">sociopathe Communiste</a> comme le Christ Sauveur, juste pour la promotion d'un voyage d'agr&#233;ment vers un pub britannique&mdash;et ces gens l&#224;, ne l'oublions pas, aiment &#224; se d&#233;crire comme hautement cultiv&#233;s et sophistiqu&#233;s.<br />
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Avec Cuba dans les limbes d'une sorte de post-dictature Communiste et la Chine avan&#231;ant inexorablement vers nationalisme et militarisme sous le couvert d'une caricature grossi&#232;re du Capitalisme, je parie sur la France pour rester le dernier pays communiste&mdash;dans l'esprit, sinon dans la lettre&mdash;lorsque tous auront disparu dans la fosse d'aisance de l'Histoire. <p>[ <small><em>Les membres ont acc&egrave;s &agrave; une s&eacute;lection plus grande de feeds RSS, y compris des versions monolingues. L'adh&eacute;sion est gratuite.</em> <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/registration/"><em>Renseignements ici</em></a></small> ]</p>]]></content>
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      <title>Jihad Jerk goes to war</title>
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      <published>2008-05-09T21:39:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-05-09T21:40:05Z</updated>
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><em>Ladies and Gentlemen, that would be this week-end's Caption Contest.</em></p>As expected by anybody sane enough not to trust the UN for fixing anything over there, Iran's armed wing in Lebanon, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354668,00.html">the Hizballah, is staging a coup.</a> God, I sure wish Israel had used a tiny bit more of that "disproportionate force", back in Summer 2006.<br />
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Anyway, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,3927,00.html#5_0">Fox News has the photos:</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,3927,00.html#5_0"><img src="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/images/uploads/0509081146_M_050908_lebanon10.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="350" /></a><br />
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His ridiculous makeshift balaclava notwithstanding, the nincompoop has a nice boomstick. Probably the reason why he looks like Dopey who would just had figured the anatomical differences between Snow White and the six other dwarves.<br />
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And these guys pretend to take over and rule the world under the House of Islam? <p>[ <small><em>Members have access to a larger selection of RSS feeds, including single language ones. Membership is free.</em> <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/registration/"><em>Information here</em></a></small> ]</p>]]></content>
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      <title>Alone in Brussels?</title>
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      <published>2008-05-09T14:10:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-05-09T14:27:25Z</updated>
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            <name>the dissident frogman</name>
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><em>The Brussels Journal makes stacks of cash advertising facilities and services dedicated to fostering Islamic demographic growth, regardless of their own alleged concern for &quot;population replacement&quot; in Europe. Should we worry, or just find ourselves one&mdash;or more!&mdash;of these cute Brussels Journal Muslim brides?</em></p><p>I normally browse the web behind a thick layer of proxy servers and filtering tools that allow me to read web pages without a single ad in sight.</p>
<p>For reasons that don&#39;t belong here they were deactivated this morning when, as I was checking my referrers and following back a single hit from the famous Waffle SS fan club, I hit <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/link/the-problem-with-brigitte-bardot/">the Brussels Journal&#39;s phony &quot;moral equivalence&quot;</a> outrage page.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/images/uploads/agoodbj.jpg"><img src="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/images/uploads/agoodbj-thmb.jpg" alt="" style="float: left; margin-right: 15px;" /></a>Imagine my surprise&mdash;and click for the full screenshot, to imagine it even better. Alone in Brussels? Not anymore: me love you long time, Allah u&#39;ackbar.</p>
<p>That&#39;s the beauty of the complex <em>automated</em> word filtering algorithms behind the Google Ads system. The little software gremlins &quot;read&quot; the BJ<sup><small>1</small></sup> page and find &quot;Brigitte Bardot&quot; and &quot;Islam&quot;. They check against their advertisers&#39; listing and push the most relevant ad with their little software gremlins hands. In this case, Brigitte Bardot+Islam mean the reader might be interested in Muslim hot<sup><small>2</small></sup> chicks. Google's little software gremlins are quite clever.</p>
<p>Ergo, the big fat ad for Muslima<sup><small>3</small></sup>, the &quot;International Muslim<b> matrimonial</b> site&quot; on a Euro white Nationalist-Supremacist site posturing as a &quot;Conservative&quot; outlet that sees itself as the champion of the thorny issue of unfettered Islamic immigration, so-called &quot;European population replacement<sup><small>4</small></sup>&quot; and the Coming Fall of the West under the Invasion of Muslim Breeding Machines.</p>
<p>Priceless.</p>
<p>And it gets better.</p>
<p>While ignoring that I specifically wrote &quot;<a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/link/the-problem-with-brigitte-bardot/">Brigitte Bardot should definitely not be prosecuted, no matter how stupid or pertinent her <em>opinions</em></a>&quot; before laying down my reasons not to side with her like I had&mdash;and still would&mdash;for people like Oriana Fallaci and Michel Houellebecq, prosecuted in France just like BB, and for similar reasons as far as the free critic of Islam is concerned, the trousered apes<sup><small>5</small></sup> that comment on the BJ&#39;s smear job quickly moved from feigned concerns over Brigitte Bardot&#39;s freedom of speech that are as faked as they are irrelevant<sup><small>6</small></sup>, to the usual stock of the rabble of Euro white-priders, Nationalists, Sovereignists and whatnot. Namely:</p>
<p>Mixing Islam with race&mdash;much like their alleged "enemies" in the Islamist and Multiculturalist side, ironically enough&mdash;cloaked pro-Serbian Nazism, bitter quips at the situation in Iraq taken straight out of Jean-Marie Le Pen's little book of support to Saddam Hussein, confused justification of the former's anti-Semitic remarks on the Holocaust, and crazed laments on the "disappearance of the white race" through a "criminal policy" of "immigration to Europe and the USA" which, they claim, the Evil Yours Truly and "most Jewish organization support"&mdash;And I'm quoting, from <i>screenshots</i> of the comments.</p>
<p>The most active moonbat in the fray actually seems to suffer from some sort of psychotic obsession with the impending &quot;disappearance of the white race<sup><small>7</small></sup>&quot;, and lays down his rants on &quot;population replacement&quot; <strong>just below the Muslima dating ad</strong>&mdash;isn't it beautiful?&mdash;without apparently realizing that regardless of Islamic influx and fecund loins, Europe&#39;s population is already replacing itself:</p>
<p><em>With nothing</em>, if demographic curves are any indication.</p>
<p>If these guys at the Waffle SS fan club are so concerned with the scarcity of their &quot;pure&quot; bloodlines, they should switch off the computer <em></em>now</em> and go hump Heidi like mad rabbits on a Viagra overdose&mdash;though not before a thorough check of Heidi&#39;s genome, of course.</p>
<p>But then, that takes more balls (literally) than to hang out at the Brussels Journal with the other skin<em>nerds</em>, daydreaming Salvation Through Genocide.</p>
<p>That said, and knowing the mechanisms of sexual attraction in many species<sup><small>8</small></sup>, it would be amusing to know how many race-conscious readers of the BJ couldn&#39;t resist the temptation to check on these hot Islamic cuties and, secretly, clicked the ad to see by themselves the torrid exotic secrets hidden undoubtedly under the hijab ("Browse photos now!"). I mean, imagine the scene:</p>
<p><em>Gertrude (blond, tall Aryan with huge yet firm and pointy feminine attributes, and a recent refugee from the Caliphate of Amsterdam), steps unexpectedly into her French boyfriend Pierre&#39;s Brussels office:</em></p>
<p>&quot;Hello, vat are you doink on de komputer?&quot;</p>
<p><em>Pierre (Originally from the French region of Brittany like Jean-Marie, a Celt-Caucasian with a bit of German diluted in for reason of a grandmother unreasonably enamored with men in uniforms), clicking frantically and ultimately shutting off his laptop in a hurry:</em></p>
<p>&quot;*click* Huh, *click* er, *click* nothing I..., Just checking the Brussels Journal for the, er *click* latest developments in the disappearance of the white race. Dont look! *slam* It&#39;s really bad! We're doomed unless we kill 'em all! ... Say, you wouldn&#39;t happen to be in the
mood for a good hard shag, would you?&quot;</p>
<p>I wonder if Google would release the numbers.</p> <p>---<small><ol><li>That's BJ for "Brussels Journal", and not "blow job". It's all right, I get quite confused myself too.</li><li>Admittedly a bit of an overstatement, what with the mandatory "modesty" sack and no hanky-panky under the burka before the Imam says so, but you get the idea.</li><li>Yep, just right of the "British Nationalist Forum" one. You can't make that up.</li><li>Quite a stupid concept indeed&mdash;after all, Europe has been on the receiving end of population migrations and invasions for thousands of years, so one would be hard pressed to define a "European" by flesh, blood and bones only&mdash;but that's until you realize that these guys use it as a &quot;less offensive&quot; euphemism for "white-only residents of Europe".</li><li>Brilliant qualification borrowed shamelessly from C.S. Lewis.</li><li>Irrelevant because as a French citizen on French soil, Brigitte Bardot is no more protected by freedom of speech than I am for there is no such thing as the First Amendment in the French Constitution. While &quot;freedom of speech&quot; is &quot;assumed&quot; with regard to French law, it is &quot;regulated&quot; so heavily that it becomes practically inexistent: a legacy of de Gaulle&#39;s presidency, and his carving of the Constitution to (chiefly) allow the head of state to silence any dissenting voice as needed by <em>La Raison d&#39;Etat</em> (a loosely defined concept, "State's reason", that bears no questioning)&mdash;as a famous example, one may look no further than the Leftist satirical weekly <em>Charlie-Hebdo</em>, that was regularly banned in the 1970s under these premises, and ultimately led to bankruptcy.<br />So before throwing one&#39;s arms in the air, hypocritically crying out that France tramples upon Brigitte Bardot&#39;s freedom of speech, one might want to make sure she enjoys such right in the first place.</li><li>His sorry self included, hopefully.</li><li>Yep, even Western Europe's last specimens of the Neanderthal strain.</li></ol></small></p><p>[ <small><em>Members have access to a larger selection of RSS feeds, including single language ones. Membership is free.</em> <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/registration/"><em>Information here</em></a></small> ]</p>]]></content>
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      <title>The BBC&#8217;s derangement syndrome&#160;&#215; Psychopathologie de la BBC</title>
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      <published>2008-05-08T10:14:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-05-08T10:17:08Z</updated>
      <author>
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[<a name="581eng"></a><p><small>English | <a href="#581fre">Fran&ccedil;ais</a></small></p><p><strong>The BBC&#8217;s derangement syndrome</strong></p><p><em>Oh, c'est la catastrophe!</em></p><p><img src="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/images/uploads/catastrophe.jpg" alt="Palestinian head honcho Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini having fun with his boyfriends in the good old days before the Catastrophe" width="700" height="467" />
Palestinian head honcho Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini having fun with his boyfriends in the good old days before the Catastrophe.</p>They just can't help it, can they? From the BBC's daily email:<blockquote>* Israel marks its 60th anniversary *<br />
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Israel begins events to mark 60 years since its creation in 1948, <strong>a date the Palestinians remember as "the Catastrophe".</strong><br />
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<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/7389140.stm">Full story</a></blockquote>Another fine example of the constant anti-Israel bias that runs amok at the Beeb. Nothing is <em>technically</em> false: Israel will mark the event that the Palestinian terror propaganda&mdash;coached by the Soviet KGB&mdash;did indeed call "the Catastrophe".<br />
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So hey, they're not lying or anything.<br />
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In other news today&mdash;curiously absent from the BBC email&mdash;Europe shall begin events to mark V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day).<br />
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A date what's left of Germany's Nazis remember as quite a catastrophe too. <p>[ <small><em>Members have access to a larger selection of RSS feeds, including single language ones. Membership is free.</em> <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/registration/"><em>Information here</em></a></small> ]</p><a name="581fre"></a><p><small><a href="#581eng">English</a> | Fran&ccedil;ais</small></p><p><strong>Psychopathologie de la BBC</strong></p>
Ils ne peuvent pas s'en emp&#234;cher, pas vrai ? Extrait du daily email de la BBC:<blockquote>* Israel marque son 60eme anniversaire *<br />
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Isra&#235;l d&#233;bute la comm&#233;moration des 60 ans depuis sa cr&#233;ation en 1948, <strong>une date dont les Palestiniens se souviennent comme de "la Catastrophe".</strong><br />
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<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/7389140.stm">Tout l'article</a></blockquote>Encore un parfait exemple du pr&#233;jug&#233; anti-isra&#233;lien qui a cours &#224; la BBC. Rien n'est <em>techniquement</em> faux : Isra&#235;l va comm&#233;morer cet &#233;v&#233;nement que la machine de propagande terroriste Palestinienne&mdash;entra&#238;n&#233;e par le KGB&mdash;a en effet appel&#233; "la Catastrophe".<br />
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Alors hein, c'est pas des craques.<br />
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Par ailleurs aujourd'hui&mdash;ce qui, curieusement, est absent de l'email de la BBC&mdash;l'Europe devrait commencer les comm&#233;morations de l'Armistice de 1945.<br />
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Une date dont ce qui reste de l'Allemagne Nazie se souvient &#233;galement comme d'une foutue catastrophe. <p>[ <small><em>Les membres ont acc&egrave;s &agrave; une s&eacute;lection plus grande de feeds RSS, y compris des versions monolingues. L'adh&eacute;sion est gratuite.</em> <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/registration/"><em>Renseignements ici</em></a></small> ]</p>]]></content>
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      <title>Another time, another war</title>
      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/link/another-time-another-war/" />
      <id>tag:thedissidentfrogman.com,2008:blog/1.580</id>
      <published>2008-05-05T13:57:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-05-05T13:58:57Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>the dissident frogman</name>
            <email>thedissidentfrogman@gmail.com</email>
            <uri>http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com</uri>      </author>
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[C.S. Lewis' Tao: judgments of value, natural law, moral relativists, Truth, Virtue and Honor, exposed in his "Reflections on education with special reference to the teaching of English in the upper forms of schools", <em><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/lewis/abolition1.htm">The Abolition of Man</a></em>. Featuring as the argument starter, the two authors of a little manual of English, whose names have been changed&mdash;to protect the indoctrinators&mdash;as <em>Gaius</em>, <em>Titius</em> and <em>The Green Book</em>, respectively.<br />
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<em>Men without Chests</em>:<blockquote>The very power of Gaius and Titius depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is 'doing' his 'English prep' and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all. The authors themselves, I suspect, hardly know what they are doing to the boy, and he cannot know what is being done to him</blockquote><br />
If you ever wondered why many a European&mdash;what Lewis describes here is definitely <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/link/the_roots_of_evil_part_i_les_racines_du_mal_chapitre_i">not limited to English text books</a>&mdash;seems to be <em>reflexively</em> Socialist (or Communist, Fascist, etc: no matter the specific brand of &#8211;ism, they are in fact being simply Collectivists&mdash;just picking a different team in the same game.), anti-American, anti-Capitalist and/or anti-Semite one generation after another, even when it's <em>obviously</em> against their best interests, there's your answer right there.<br />
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More:<blockquote>I have hitherto been assuming that such teachers as Gaius and Titius do not fully realize what they are doing and do not intend the far-reaching consequences it will actually have. There is, of course, another possibility. What I have called (presuming on their concurrence in a certain traditional system of values) the 'trousered ape' and the 'urban blockhead' may be precisely the kind of man they really wish to produce. (&#8230;) They may be intending to make a clean sweep of traditional values and start with a new set.</blockquote>We now know that it is indeed their plan: <em>Du pass&#233; faisons table rase</em>, or "Of the past let us wipe the slate clean", as goes the literal English translation from the French lyrics of the Communist anthem "The Internationale". (clenched fist salute required while you sing).<blockquote>(&#8230;) As a result, they must either decide to remove all sentiments, as far as possible, from the pupil's mind; or else to encourage some sentiments for reasons that have nothing to do with their intrinsic 'justness' or 'ordinacy'. The latter course involves them in the questionable process of creating in others by 'suggestions' or incantation <em>[<a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/link/and-lo-the-al-he-was-not-the-george-and-there-was-much-rejoicing/">Al is All!</a>&mdash;DF]</em> a mirage which their own reason has successfully dissipated.<br />
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Perhaps this will become clearer if we take a concrete instance. When a Roman father told his son that it was a sweet and seemly thing to die for his country,<em>["Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori". Lewis refers to the Roman poet Horace on courage and patriotism. In Odes, book III, ode 2, line 13&mdash;DF]</em> he believed what he said. He was communicating to the son an emotion which he himself shared and which he believed to be in accord with the value which his judgment discerned in noble death. He was giving the boy the best he had, giving of his spirit to humanize him as he had given of his body to beget him. But Gaius and Titius cannot believe that in calling such a death sweet and seemly they would be saying 'something important about something'. Their own method of debunking would cry out against them if they attempted to do so. For death is not something to eat and therefore cannot be <em>dulce</em> in the literal sense, and it is unlikely that the real sensation preceding it will be <em>dulce</em> even by analogy. And as for <em>decorum</em>&mdash;that is only a word describing how some other people will feel about your death when they happen to think of it, which won't be often, and will certainly do you no good. There are only two courses open to Gaius and Titius. Either they must go the whole way and debunk this sentiment like any other, or must set themselves to work to produce, from outside, a sentiment which they believe to be of no value to the pupil and which may cost him his life, because it is useful to us (the survivors) that our young men should feel it. If they embark on this course, the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the new merely 'conditions'. The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper deals with young birds&mdash;making them thus or thus for purposes of which the birds know nothing. In a word, the old was a kind of propagation&mdash;men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda. (&#8230;)<br />
The operation of <em>The Green Book</em> and its kind is to produce what may be called Men without Chests. It is an outrage that they should be commonly spoken of as Intellectuals. This gives them the chance to that he who attacks them attacks Intelligence. It is not so. (&#8230;) Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of the chest beneath that makes them seem so.<br />
And all the time&mdash;such is the tragic-comedy of our situation&mdash;we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. (&#8230;) In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.</blockquote>The depressing fact is that more than 60 years after it was written, that kind of writing is still stunningly relevant. The only consoling point being that it is still available to us when we need it more than ever&mdash;despite the fact that the social ills it describes and opposes have made great strides ever since, and encroached themselves so firmly that it would take generations to turn the tide&mdash;consider this as evidence #1 to support my beliefs that Europe <em>will</em> fall to one kind of Fascism or another in the near future.<br />
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The only unknown, at this point, being which brand of thugs will take over: indigenous national-supremacists-whatever or an Islamic-Leftist flimsy alliance <em>de circonstance</em>.<blockquote>A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.<br />
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I am not here thinking solely, perhaps not even chiefly, of those who are our public enemies at the moment <em>[i.e. 1943&mdash;DF]</em>. The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than among Fascists. The methods may (at first) differ in brutality. But many mild-eyed scientist in pince-nez, many a popular dramatist, many an amateur philosopher in our midst, means in the long run just the same as the Nazi rulers of Germany.</blockquote>That last quote I dedicate to the <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/link/the-problem-with-brigitte-bardot/">Waffle fighters in Brussels</a>, between their phony "moral equivalences" on Brigitte Bardot, and their dreams of real balkanization of Western nations as a final solution to the Muslim question.<br />
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Again, one cannot compromise with Evil while claiming it's for the sake of Good. <p>[ <small><em>Members have access to a larger selection of RSS feeds, including single language ones. Membership is free.</em> <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/registration/"><em>Information here</em></a></small> ]</p>]]></content>
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      <title>Scavenging is recycling</title>
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      <id>tag:thedissidentfrogman.com,2008:blog/1.579</id>
      <published>2008-05-04T20:58:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-05-04T21:02:06Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>the dissident frogman</name>
            <email>thedissidentfrogman@gmail.com</email>
            <uri>http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com</uri>      </author>
<category term="The&#45;Me" scheme="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/records/category/The-Me/" label="The&#45;Me" /><category term="Ye Gods" scheme="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/records/category/ye-gods/" label="Ye Gods" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/images/uploads/machine_01.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></p>Today's spectacularly sunny Sunday was officially declared:<br />
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The Oh Brother save thee mucho Euros in spare parts through cannibalizing this here car Day.<br />
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After 30 minutes of some fierce fighting of man against machine, flesh against metal<sup><small>1</small></sup>, I finally laid my greedy&mdash;and greasy&mdash;hands on the prized organ ripped from the belly of the beast.<p style="align:center"><img src="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/images/uploads/machine_02.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></p>Now to have this thing proofed for leaks, and if it can hold its Freon then <del>Al</del> Bob <em>will be</em> my uncle&mdash;and Lo! There will be mucho Euros left for cold beer on the future sunny Sundays on schedule.<br />
 <p>---<small><ol><li>And a bit of swearing. Nothing fancy, just your average half-annoyed half-admirative "Sum' bitch! Don't you worry, I'll get you!" uttered between the teeth, only in French. The flesh stands no chance in a frontal attack against the metal, so you'd better keep your blood cool and carry on. Otherwise, the machine always win.</li></ol></small></p><p>[ <small><em>Members have access to a larger selection of RSS feeds, including single language ones. Membership is free.</em> <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/registration/"><em>Information here</em></a></small> ]</p>]]></content>
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      <title>Jean&#45;Marie disagree</title>
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      <id>tag:thedissidentfrogman.com,2008:blog/1.578</id>
      <published>2008-05-01T12:48:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-05-01T12:48:29Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>the dissident frogman</name>
            <email>thedissidentfrogman@gmail.com</email>
            <uri>http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com</uri>      </author>
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[Rockets hit the Israeli town of Sderot on Wednesday, as they have since Israel was accused by the European Union of using "disproportionate force" in her answer to Hizballah's wanton attacks on her citizens and land, during the Summer of 2006 conflict with the gang of Mahmoud-backed Islamothugs.<br />
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You might be tempted to ask, "so what's the big news then?"<br />
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The big news is that it happened to interrupt an Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony&mdash;an event that, according to Brigitte Bardot's idol Jean Marie Le Pen, didn't really happen. Or wasn't that bad anyway. A mere detail you know.<blockquote><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3538046,00.html">Sderot: Qassams hit during Holocaust ceremony</a><br />
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Two Qassam rockets landed in an open area near Sderot Wednesday night shortly after the Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony began in the western Negev town's sheltered cultural center. No injuries or casualties were reported.  <br />
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The western Negev was hit with 15 Qassam rockets since the morning hours.<br />
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Moyal <em>[Mayor of Sderot &mdash; Ed]</em> added that he thought it was necessary to hold the ceremony despite the security concerns. &#8220;I think that our answer to terrorism is not being afraid. Presently, the leadership must make decisions, but in light of this special request, we changed the location and the ceremony took place as planned.&#8221;</blockquote>Good on them. As long as this attitude prevails, the gangs of Islamothugs will learn what many a Euro-Fascist did before them, right before they bit the bullet in the Berlin bunker. <br />
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The Waffle SS fan club, headquartered behind a desk at the Brussels Journal, did not feel compelled to comment so far. <p>[ <small><em>Members have access to a larger selection of RSS feeds, including single language ones. Membership is free.</em> <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/registration/"><em>Information here</em></a></small> ]</p>]]></content>
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      <title>The Pen, The Sword, etc</title>
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      <published>2008-04-29T17:42:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-04-29T17:42:58Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>the dissident frogman</name>
            <email>thedissidentfrogman@gmail.com</email>
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[Unsurprisingly, <a href="http://www.adl.org/international/le-pen_new.asp">Le Pen</a> tries to cash in on the media attention his old groupie Brigitte Bardot recently brought upon their common heinous conception of Mankind, by <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3053779.ece">repeating</a> his little <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2007213/posts?page=47">revisionist headline-magnets on the Holocaust</a>.<br />
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The Waffle SS fan club is apparently so concerned by phony "moral equivalences" that it has no time left to comment on the infamous One-Eyed Briton's claim that the gas chambers were a "detail of history", and his observation that:<blockquote>(...) in Auschwitz there was the IG Farben factory, there were 80,000 labourers working there. As far as I know they were not gassed, anyway, nor burned.</blockquote>... Which is presumably OK with respect to the 5.7 millions who <em>were</em>.<br />
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Apparently not that big an issue for the "desk at the Brussels Journal" either&mdash;I suppose one is quite reluctant to wash one's dirty linen in public.<br />
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Anyway, I shall therefore repeat myself, and add that I'll give fifty Brigitte(s) for one Ayn:<blockquote>"There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns."&mdash;Ayn Rand <small>(<a href="http://freedomkeys.com/faithandforce.htm">quoted here</a>, alongside other goodies)</small></blockquote>... Leaving the tenants of logic and persuasion with the only option to reach for their own guns&mdash;as long as they have them&mdash;and defend themselves when the Fascists hit the fan.<br />
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Euro-Race Supremacists or Islamists, it makes no difference at all. Rifle at the ready, <em>if need be</em>.<br />
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<em>(Churned with great enthusiasm at the glorious tunes of <a href="http://www.eliznik.org.uk/RomaniaMusic/brass.htm">Fanfara Din Zece Pr&#259;jini</a>, who like Ayn Rand are just a bunch of those filthy [and dark(er)-skinned, for some] "foreigners" from abroad Brigitte Bardot, the Waffle SS fan club and friends warned you about. Still, their Romany reprise of Steppenwolf's "Born to be wild" is quite something.)</em> <p>[ <small><em>Members have access to a larger selection of RSS feeds, including single language ones. Membership is free.</em> <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/registration/"><em>Information here</em></a></small> ]</p>]]></content>
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      <title>Someone endanger that species, quick</title>
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      <published>2008-04-28T15:36:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-04-28T15:53:59Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>the dissident frogman</name>
            <email>thedissidentfrogman@gmail.com</email>
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[Just when you thought the Hollywood Actor Vulgaris couldn't compete any dumber in the Darwin Awards, Exhibitionism comes in and meet Indiana Jones.<br />
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<a href="http://www.julescrittenden.com/2008/04/28/feeling-gaias-pain/">Jules Crittenden</a> relays <a href="http://vodkapundit.com/">Vodkapundit</a> on <a href="http://www.accesshollywood.com/article/9231/harrison-ford-gets-waxed-for-the-environment/">Access Hollywood's</a> chest hair waxing Harrison Ford to "demonstrate the pain of deforestation". I wish I could make these up, and earn a much better living.<br />
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Coming up next: Brad Pitt has Harrison Ford's chest hair transplanted to demonstrate the pain of global warming. Hot! <p>[ <small><em>Members have access to a larger selection of RSS feeds, including single language ones. Membership is free.</em> <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/registration/"><em>Information here</em></a></small> ]</p>]]></content>
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      <title>Deaf, dumb and blind</title>
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      <id>tag:thedissidentfrogman.com,2008:blog/1.574</id>
      <published>2008-04-28T13:56:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-04-28T13:59:14Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>the dissident frogman</name>
            <email>thedissidentfrogman@gmail.com</email>
            <uri>http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com</uri>      </author>
<category term="France" scheme="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/records/category/France/" label="France" /><category term="Masters of Disinformation" scheme="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/records/category/masters-of-disinformation/" label="Masters of Disinformation" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_2_cultural_jihadists.html" title="An Anatomy of Surrender">Bruce Bawer</a><blockquote>(...) consider the riots that gripped immigrant suburbs in France in the autumn of 2005. These uprisings were largely assertions of Muslim authority over Muslim neighborhoods, and thus clearly jihadist in character. Yet weeks passed before many American press outlets mentioned them&#8212;and when they did, they de-emphasized the rioters&#8217; Muslim identity (few cited the cries of &#8220;Allahu akbar,&#8221; for instance). </blockquote>Not a surprise, when one knows how quickly Canal Plus (one of the five French national channels) buried its own footage of Youths On A Rampage Whose Religion Thou Shall Not Name, when people started noticing the aforementioned cries in the background.<br />
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Even to the most <em>disinformed</em> audience&mdash;re the French coverage of Iraqi Freedom for instance&mdash;it's hard to make "Allahu akbar" sound like "Will work for food". <p>[ <small><em>Members have access to a larger selection of RSS feeds, including single language ones. Membership is free.</em> <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/registration/"><em>Information here</em></a></small> ]</p>]]></content>
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      <title>Possible Interruption of Service</title>
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      <published>2008-04-28T11:36:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-04-28T14:22:27Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>the dissident frogman</name>
            <email>thedissidentfrogman@gmail.com</email>
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[I'll be doing a bit of maintenance under the hood (kicking the MySQL server till it reboots and stuff), which means that the site could vanish into thin pixels, leaving Brigitte Bardot's National Nationalists and the Islamo-Lefties in the "opposing" team with one less virtual outlet bashing their behinds.<br />
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At least until I get the backup, er, back.<br />
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<h4>Update</h4><br />
Piece of cake.<br />
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<h4>Update II</h4><br />
I'm getting rid of the ranking system&mdash;so fear not if you don't see the five stars thingy next to the titles anymore&mdash;it's not that I don't value your feedback (on the contrary) but it seems to be a poster child for "underutilization", while putting a bit of a strain on resources and page weight. So unless there's a public outcry to have it back, it's out.<br />
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I'm thinking of other features to replace it&mdash;including some that might actually be useful.<br />
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By the way, anybody here uses any of the numerous social bookmark-linking things (Digg, Technorati and other "Web 2.0" crapozoids)? And for those of you who did not give me that blank "Social what thing?" look two seconds ago, which ones do you use?<br />
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Yep, I'm in the Spring cleaning mood. <p>[ <small><em>Members have access to a larger selection of RSS feeds, including single language ones. Membership is free.</em> <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/registration/"><em>Information here</em></a></small> ]</p>]]></content>
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      <title>Great moments at the French Etat&#45;major</title>
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      <published>2008-04-28T11:12:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-04-28T11:16:05Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>the dissident frogman</name>
            <email>thedissidentfrogman@gmail.com</email>
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[One of many, that is:<blockquote>French expectation of victory in the Franco&#8212;Prussian War of 1870 was so great that its officers were issued maps of Germany, but not of France: "Alas, maps of the roads leading to Paris would have been more useful, so fast was the enemy's advance."&mdash;<small>Geoffrey Blainey, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Causes-War-Geoffrey-Blainey/dp/0029035910">The Causes of War</a></small></blockquote><em>Pas si vite!</em> Funny as it is, that doesn't beat sitting idly (crapping your pants listening to the defeatist tune of the anti-war Left) while Adolph H. remilitarizes the Rhineland, the Wehrmarcht guts Poland, invades Denmark & Norway and regroups its forces for a Summer of Love in the gay Paris while you stack men and tanks at the Maginot Line even though you know perfectly well that the bulk of the Teutonic Horde is elsewhere.<br />
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Compared to the abject pacifist apathy of 1940's French army and society, there <em>is</em> something of an appeal in its mindless 1870 optimism, no matter how <em>misguided</em><sup><small>1</small></sup>. <p>---<small><ol><li>Ha-ha. You know, misguided, coz they had like, you know, no maps and all.</li></ol></small></p><p>[ <small><em>Members have access to a larger selection of RSS feeds, including single language ones. Membership is free.</em> <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/registration/"><em>Information here</em></a></small> ]</p>]]></content>
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      <title>God&#8217;s Green Card</title>
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      <published>2008-04-28T08:21:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-04-28T09:50:56Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>the dissident frogman</name>
            <email>thedissidentfrogman@gmail.com</email>
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[The irregular quote of the day courtesy P.J. O'Rourke, in a somewhat old piece (a couple of months, or 10,000 years in Internet Time) <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/650gxotg.asp">Letter to our European friends:</a><blockquote>After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.</blockquote>(Found by leapfrogging<sup><small>1</small></sup> from his <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/006dgrlw.asp?pg=1">24 hours on the 'Big Stick'</a> story).<br />
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I'll just add that judging by the forces in presence at the dawn of the 21st<sup><small>2</small></sup>, He's not about to come back any time soon.<br />
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Can't blame Him, really&mdash;Hell<sup><small>3</small></sup> I'll follow Him as soon as I get a chance. <p>---<small><ol><li>I just can't resist doing that.</li><li>Waffles anyone?</li><li>Sorry, Dear God.</li></ol></small></p><p>[ <small><em>Members have access to a larger selection of RSS feeds, including single language ones. Membership is free.</em> <a href="http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/registration/"><em>Information here</em></a></small> ]</p>]]></content>
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