Category Archives: Africa

Ding Dong Gaddafi’s Dead

October 25, 2011 – 3:49 am

Muammar Gaddafi’s decades long reign in Libya came to a bloody end last week. NATO airplanes attacked a convoy of vehicles fleeing Sirte, his last stronghold. Gaddafi ran for cover, as local militia surrounded the area. Finding refuge in a drainage pipe, the colonel fought for his life, but NTC fighters pounded the concrete tube […]

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Never No Hotter

July 25, 2011 – 9:01 am

Hottest temperature ever recorded on the surface of this planet was 57.8 °C (136 °F) at Al ‘Aziziyah, Libya on September 9, 1922 Having been in 117 F, I can’t imagine how much hotter is 136 F. Damn hot.

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WE ARE FAMILY / Sister Sledge

April 12, 2011 – 8:48 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K29yL-2Iuf4&feature=related

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ZULU the movie

April 3, 2011 – 12:54 pm

Barack Obama might displease the ‘birthers’ about his explanation about his place of birth, but the president has been very forecoming about his favorite movies which are listed on Facebook. CASABLANCA, GODFATHER I AND II, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, and ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST. I am in complete accord with Mr. Obama on CASABLANCA. […]

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Still Good To Be The King

April 3, 2011 – 12:28 pm

The 1961 movie ZULU opens up with a pagan fertility dance in which naked girls dance before Zulu warriors. I saw the movie five times for that scene alone. I was 12. This tribal tradition flourishes to this day in Swaziland, where tens of thousands of bare-breasted virgins shake their booty in the annual Reed […]

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