God love Ted Nugent. He knows what’s right, makes no apologies for it and actually stands up against evil. Plain old Texan common sense.
Here is a segment where Ted Nugent discusses the 2nd Amendment with Evan Smith, host of the KLRU program Texas Monthly Talks and editor of Texas Monthly magazine. What’s said doesn’t specifically apply to any recent topics here, but at the same time it applies to all of them in general. You’ll hear what I mean:
I’m being pressed, pestered and bothered; a long few weeks of dealing with the results of censors and attempts to destroy the traffic flow to the Anvil. And still I am winning.
However, I am definitely being distracted by this useless waste of my energies.
It doesn’t look like such attempts are going to end anytime soon either. Today I noticed that my most harmless web presence of all, my music profile on MySpace, has been mysteriously deleted without warning. I just sent an inquiry to MySpace.
From the AP, sad news. One of the greats has passed on:
ROME - Luciano Pavarotti, whose vibrant high C’s and ebullient showmanship made him one of the world’s most beloved tenors, died Thursday, his manager told The Associated Press. He was 71.
His manager, Terri Robson, told the AP in an e-mailed statement that Pavarotti died at his home in Modena, Italy, at 5 a.m. local time. Pavarotti had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year and underwent further treatment in August.
Poking fun at Islamofascism has now hit the musical stage. Report and sharp critique from Times Online and I’ve tossed in some videos:
There are no fewer than 15 shows called Something: The Musical on this year’s Fringe, from Asbo to Orgasm, all doubtless in pursuit of this year’s new prize for music theatre. If there were a prize for poor taste, the creators of this show might have been hoping for a podium finish at least, though there is something else called “Cabaret Auschwitz” which would surely run them pretty close.
I had to put the final announcement up that concludes last week’s story: the winner of the show “Britain’s Got Talent” is Paul Potts! The following clip features the vote results, and Paul Potts’ Live performance after winning.
A heartfelt congratulations to Paul. I wish him much future success.
This isn’t about jihad. This isn’t about Islam. This is a break from all that. Talent like this deserves attention on a grand scale. God-given talent.
This is Paul Potts singing “Nessun Dorma” on UK talent show “Britain’s got Talent”, featuring Simon Cowell as a judge. Just look at how stunned the judges are when he begins to sing. I do think that actress Amanda Holden gets a tad flushed, too. What do you think? *chuckles*
I’ve encountered information about Sayyid Qutb before, and I’m thankful to reader Gramfan for pointing me towards the following article so that I might share it with the rest of you. As you will see, Sayyid Qutb had a very potent influence on the likes of Osama bin Laden, and despite having lived in some of the most beautiful parts of the United States for some years and receiving the benefits of our educational system, Qutb cultivated his hatred and desire for jihad even more. In fact, his history and wanderings in the U.S. and his particular criticisms of “American decadence” hit so close to home with me, that I will only not relate here in more detail for sake of anonymity, that it’s nothing short of eerie.
I think most regular readers here at the Anvil are aware that I have some musical talent. I’m not typically a fan of rap, but when I came across the following video/song from Stuck Mojo (thanks to Catherine over at JW comments), I found myself smiling. This band gets the big picture. Just listen to the lyrics and you’ll hear what I mean.
www.myspace.com/foehammersanvil (EDIT: This site has been removed by MySpace some few months after this article was written and no reason has ever been given.)
It’s a music profile. If you want to hear ‘America Awakening’ in mp3 quality, now is your chance. And please feel free to friend that profile, add the music to your own MySpace profile, etc.
Ok, I got busy and I’ve surprised myself this time. In order to prepare my Flash movie ‘Refuting Islam - Part 1′ for migration to YouTube, I realized that it would be necessary to create original music in order to prevent an excuse of copyright infringement being used against me in order to have the movie unduly removed, as happened recently to Nick Gisburne and his anti-Islam video.
Because we can all use some comedy relief, especially me, here’s a very funny Frank Sinatra parody to listen to. Perhaps the best parody of Sinatra I’ve ever heard, too. Introduced on the Howard Stern radio show some time after 9-11:
This might seem a bit off-topic for this blog, but the snafu that I witnessed Sunday morning on this past Saturday Night Live was anything but comical to me: seeing yet another spoiled, pumped up fake at work on national television and getting paid big bucks for it — but this fake was tragically revealed and her name is Ashlee Simpson, younger sister of Jessica Simpson. You can read details of the incident here.